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Powerful Skin Cancer Drug Stops Mesothelioma Tumor Growth
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Apr 27, 2015
A groundbreaking immunotherapy drug that effectively treats skin cancer stopped tumor growth in 76 percent of patients diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma, a recent study shows. Researchers at the…
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Mesothelioma Patients Live Longer After Aggressive Cancer Surgery
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Apr 23, 2015
Aggressive pleurectomy/decortication surgery, while often recommended, will cause a significant decrease in pulmonary function with early-stage mesothelioma patients whose symptoms were previously minimal. More symptomatic patients with advanced disease will…
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FDA Approves New Use for Immunotherapy Drug in Mesothelioma Treatment
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Apr 7, 2015
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted orphan drug designation last week to the immunotherapy vaccine CRS-207, moving it one step closer to changing the way malignant pleural mesothelioma…
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New Mesothelioma Treatment Options Are Emerging for Patients
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Apr 2, 2015
Although no definitive cure is in sight, the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma has entered a promising, much-anticipated phase that goes beyond the multimodal approach that has been the…
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New Lung Cancer Drug Opdivo May Hold Hope for Mesothelioma Patients
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Mar 16, 2015
Federal approval of the highly-touted immunotherapy drug Opdivo for advanced squamous non-small cell lung cancer may signal good news for malignant pleural mesothelioma patients. The U.S. Food and Drug…
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UK Study Shows Promise for Epithelioid Mesothelioma Patients
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Mar 12, 2015
More than 30 percent of patients with epithelioid mesothelioma, the most common cellular strain of this cancer. lived for five years or more after a multidisciplinary treatment approach in England,…
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Verastem: FDA Grants New Mesothelioma Orphan Drug Approval to VS-5584
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Feb 27, 2015
Mesothelioma patients may see a potential new treatment option in another drug that targets and kills cancer stem cells. Drugmaker Verastem Inc. this month announced the U.S. Food and…
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Mesothelioma Survivors Endorse Baylor’s Lung Institute in Houston
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Feb 17, 2015
Thoracic surgeon Dr. David Sugarbaker disappointed some patients in 2014 when he left Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where he had forged his reputation as the nation’s foremost…
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Schiffman Adds Peritoneal Mesothelioma Expertise to Allegheny
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Feb 10, 2015
The Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh didn’t have to look far in 2014 to recruit one of the country’s talented young surgeons, skilled enough to offer technically advanced care…
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New Mesothelioma Drug May Bring ‘Brilliant Hope for Cancer Therapy’
- by Joey Rosenberg
- Treatment & Doctors
- Feb 6, 2015
A Japanese research team recently described the versatile anti-cancer benefits of HUHS1015, a new drug that shows promise as a treatment for mesothelioma and various other cancers. In a Dec.
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