Treatment & Doctors - Page 2
First Mesothelioma Patient Begins Newly Approved Treatment
- by Matt Mauney
- Treatment & Doctors
- Oct 1, 2019
A mesothelioma patient at West Cancer Center in Memphis, Tennessee, is the first in the country to use NovoTTF-100L, a noninvasive electric therapy treatment, since its approval by the U.S.
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Medicare Now Covers CAR T-Cell Therapy for Approved Cancers
- by Matt Mauney
- Treatment & Doctors
- Sep 19, 2019
A promising and expensive type of immunotherapy, called CAR T-cell therapy, is now covered by Medicare. This news may affect mesothelioma patients in the future. Chimeric antigen…
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MD Anderson Remains Top-Ranked Cancer Center
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Aug 28, 2019
U.S. News & World Report named University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston as the No. 1 Adult Cancer Hospital in America for the fifth consecutive year.
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Cameron Sees No Need for National Mesothelioma Registry
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jul 25, 2019
Thoracic surgeon Dr. Robert Cameron, a longtime leader in the fight against pleural mesothelioma cancer, believes there is no benefit to establishing a government-funded national registry for the disease.
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Mesothelioma Treatment Guidelines Not Followed Often Enough
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jun 12, 2019
Too many patients with pleural mesothelioma are going without treatment recommended by National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, according to a recent study at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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FDA Approves First New Treatment for Mesothelioma in 15 Years
- by Matt Mauney
- Treatment & Doctors
- May 24, 2019
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration on Thursday approved Tumor Treating Fields, a therapy involving electric currents that disrupt cancer cell division and inhibit tumor growth, for the first-line treatment…
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Targeting Blood-Clotting Pathway Improves Mesothelioma Treatment
- by Suzanne Dixon
- Treatment & Doctors
- Mar 5, 2019
A team of researchers at the Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center in Haifa, Israel, and the Langone Medical Center in New York collaborated on research of a common blood-clotting…
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Belgian EPP Study Shows Mesothelioma Surgery Extends Survival
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Mar 4, 2019
Using proper patient selection, doctors in Leuven, Belgium, are extending mesothelioma survival times significantly with the controversial extrapleural pneumonectomy surgery. Despite a growing reluctance to perform the surgery within the…
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Apatinib Case Study Uncovers Potential Mesothelioma Treatment
- by Tim Povtak
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 31, 2019
Doctors in China may have uncovered an effective second- or third-line treatment option for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Dr. RongQin Meng, an oncologist at 363 Hospital in Cheng Du,…
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Gene-Editing Tool Reverses Cancer Resistance to Chemotherapy
- by Suzanne Dixon
- Treatment & Doctors
- Jan 28, 2019
A team of researchers at the Gene Editing Institute in Newark, Delaware, has successfully treated chemotherapy-resistant lung cancer cells with the CRISPR gene-editing technique. The study was published Dec. 21,…
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