Category: <span>mesothelioma surgery</span>

New Study: Mesothelioma Surgery Still Benefits Older Patients

Older patients with pleural mesothelioma can double their chances of extending their survival rates by undergoing aggressive, potentially curative surgery, according to a recent national database analysis. Age also should not be a deterrent to surgery, refuting the lingering myth that many mesothelioma patients are too old to benefit from these procedures. “More and more,…

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New Study: Mesothelioma Surgery Still Benefits Older Patients

Older patients with pleural mesothelioma can double their chances of extending their survival rates by undergoing aggressive, potentially curative surgery, according to a recent national database analysis. Age also should not be a deterrent to surgery, refuting the lingering myth that many mesothelioma patients are too old to benefit from these procedures. “More and more,…

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New Study: Mesothelioma Surgery Still Benefits Older Patients

Older patients with pleural mesothelioma can double their chances of extending their survival rates by undergoing aggressive, potentially curative surgery, according to a recent national database analysis. Age also should not be a deterrent to surgery, refuting the lingering myth that many mesothelioma patients are too old to benefit from these procedures. “More and more,…

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Mesothelioma Surgery Improves Quality of Life

Renowned thoracic surgeon Dr. Wickii Vigneswaran in Chicago believes far too many patients with pleural mesothelioma are being denied aggressive surgeries that could improve their quality of life. He wants to fix that dilemma. Vigneswaran, a mesothelioma specialist at the Loyola University Medical Center, authored a recent study debunking the long-standing belief that major surgery…

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Peritoneal Mesothelioma: No End in Sight

Marty Kanarek has spent the last 40 years as an environmental epidemiologist trying to make the world a safer place to live. Asbestos — and its sordid history — has made that task considerably harder. “[Asbestos] is still the most frightening thing in environmental epidemiology,” Kanarek, professor of population health sciences and environmental studies at…

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Mesothelioma Study: Age Is Not Deciding Factor for Surgery

A recent study has reinforced — for the second time — the growing belief that age should not be a deterrent to aggressive, life-changing surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma. You’re never too old. Dr. Annabel Sharkey, cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, said patients well over the age of 70…

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