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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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