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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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Acetic Acid in Vinegar Kills Mesothelioma Cells
- by Joey Rosenberg
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 21, 2015
For more than 2,000 years, people have used vinegar to preserve and flavor food, disinfect wounds and treat a wide range of ailments, from stomach aches to diabetes. Yet modern…
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Mount Sinai Hospital Doctor Touts Pleurectomy/ Decortication Treatment
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 9, 2015
Renowned thoracic surgeon Raja Flores, M.D., isn’t ready to abandon the aggressive and once-preferred extrapleural pneumonectomy procedure for patients with mesothelioma, but now he is convinced there is a…
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Improved Radiation Therapy Extends Lives of Mesothelioma Patients
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Dec 30, 2014
Mesothelioma patients receiving novel radiation therapy following lung-sparing pleurectomy/decortication (P/D) surgery lived almost twice as long as those undergoing the more aggressive extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP), according to one recent study.
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Landreneau Forging New Path for Mesothelioma Patients in Pittsburgh
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Dec 15, 2014
Renowned thoracic surgeon Dr. Rodney Landreneau once hoped the number of pleural mesothelioma patients would have declined significantly by now — decades after the widespread use of asbestos dropped dramatically…
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Vegetable Compound May Reduce Mesothelioma Treatment Side Effects
- by Joey Rosenberg
- Treatment & Doctors
- Dec 9, 2014
For a cancer as rare and difficult to treat as mesothelioma, innovative thinking is vital to making progress that helps survivors live longer and feel healthier. While experimental therapies…
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Mesothelioma Survivor Credits Cannabis Oil Treatment to His Recovery
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Nov 14, 2014
Twelve months ago, doctors told Ruth Ashcraft it was time to look seriously into a palliative care or hospice facility for her husband, Andy, whose health had taken another turn…
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