Category: Mesothelioma News

As an occupational medicine specialist for more than 30 years, Dr. Michael Harbut has spent much of his career combating asbestos-related disease. Rarely has he felt this energized. Harbut is the lead investigator in a new, high-tech study of breath-based biomarkers that could save lives through novel, early detection of mesothelioma cancer. “This study has…

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The House Judiciary Committee passed the Never Forget the Heroes bill Wednesday that will extend the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund until 2090. The bill would ensure all victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — and their families — will be compensated throughout their lives. It now must pass the full House of Representatives and…

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At the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, Dr. Prasad Adusumilli from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center shared exciting new results from his study on combination immunotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Among the 18 mesothelioma patients in the study, 14 received a combination of two different immunotherapy treatments. Eleven of this group experienced…

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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. Valuable survival time is being lost. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery published the study that looked at disparities in compliance with national treatment guidelines and their…

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For the second time in three months, Claire’s stores issued a voluntary recall over concerns of asbestos contamination in its makeup products marketed to young girls, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced late Thursday. Claire’s, a children’s fashion accessory retail chain found in malls across the U.S., has recalled its JoJo Siwa Makeup Set…

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Less than 13% of cancer patients who receive checkpoint inhibitor drugs such as Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and Opdivo (nivolumab) actually benefit from the much-heralded form of immunotherapy, new research shows. The modest response rate is part of the first broad study that has estimated the rise in patient eligibility and the actual benefit of this immunotherapy…

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A state jury in New York ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $300 million in punitive damages to Donna Olson and her husband who claim its talcum powder caused her to develop mesothelioma. The same jury awarded the couple $25 million in compensatory damages a few days earlier. The total verdict is one of the…

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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 of malignant pleural mesothelioma. It is the first treatment in more than 15 years that the FDA approves for mesothelioma. In 2004, the agency added…

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