Category: <span>mesothelioma</span>

Category: mesothelioma

Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments, Immunotherapy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Treatment

Mesothelioma Treatment Uses Natural Immune Cells

 

For patients with mesothelioma cancer, immunotherapy is a promising new field. Results from a recent study at Rice University in Houston are exciting. Researchers are looking at ways the natural immune system can help fight this cancer.   The study examined the therapeutic effects of interleukin 2, a form of immunotherapy for mesothelioma. IL2 is a […]

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Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Treatment

Baylor Study: Mesothelioma ‘Staged Surgical Approach’ Increases Survival

 

Select patients diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer in both the thoracic and abdominal cavities still can achieve an extended survival if their treatment center performs the preferred types of aggressive surgery, according to a recent study at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Patients undergoing bicavitary cytoreductive surgery that includes the lung-sparing, extended pleurectomy and decortication […]

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asbestos exposure, Legal, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

UK Citizens Filing Asbestos Talc Claims In U.S. Courts

 

Residents of the United Kingdom have been among the growing number of personal injury plaintiffs filing lawsuits in U.S. courts, attributing their diagnoses of mesothelioma cancer to asbestos-contaminated talc. That should come as no surprise. With the world’s highest per capita incidence rate of mesothelioma, the UK is contributing to the changing face of asbestos […]

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asbestos exposure, Legal, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Avon Hit With $52.1M Verdict for Asbestos-Contaminated Talc

 

A California jury awarded $52.1 million to an Arizona woman diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer. The multimillion-dollar verdict combines damages against cosmetics giant Avon and a forklift manufacturer. Attorneys for Rita-Ann Chapman said she had been using Avon talc products contaminated with asbestos for much of her life. Chapman is 76. She blamed additional secondhand asbestos […]

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asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Dangers of Legacy Asbestos Detailed in UK Study

 

A recently published study from the United Kingdom has shown that legacy asbestos lingering in commercial and residential construction is more dangerous than expected.  In what is believed to be the largest study in the world of legacy asbestos, researchers found that almost two-thirds of it had aged enough, or was damaged enough, for fibers […]

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Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Treatment

Looking Beyond Clinical Trials for Mesothelioma Treatment

 

Clinical trial results should not always be the guiding force when a mesothelioma cancer patient and their medical team determine what therapy path to take, according to one recent study. A look at real-world populations might be just as important. A research team at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine has made the point […]

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Clinical Trials/Research/Emerging Treatments, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Global Mesothelioma Cases Nearly Double Over 30 Years

 

The number of people in the world diagnosed annually with mesothelioma cancer has almost doubled in the last 30 years, accentuating the need for more effective and better coordinated efforts to end this preventable, global health problem. Almost 35,000 people were diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2019, compared to an estimated 19,000 in 1990, according to […]

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asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Congress Resumes Asbestos Ban Efforts After ProPublica Report

 

U.S. lawmakers and public health advocates have renewed their call for Congress to pass a long-awaited legislative ban of asbestos, sparked by the most recent news detailing the damage still being done by the toxic mineral. ProPublica, a nonprofit online news organization, chronicled the health effects stemming from an upstate New York industrial manufacturing plant […]

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asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Asbestos Health Screenings in Libby, Montana, Expanding

 

Highly specialized asbestos exposure health screenings in Libby, Montana, have gone mobile. In an effort to identify lung abnormalities at their earliest stage, the groundbreaking Center for Asbestos Related Disease – known as CARD – has begun touring the state, offering its services to those unable or unwilling to travel. The efforts have been well […]

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asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

Major Section of Libby Asbestos Superfund Cleanup Completed

 

Twenty years after being placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List, the Libby, Montana, asbestos Superfund site continues its slow but steady climb toward total restoration. The EPA announced earlier this month that cleanup of another major section had been completed, the fourth of a sprawling, eight-unit project that began in 2002. […]

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Doctors/Specialists, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Treatment

Specialty Centers Treating Mesothelioma Lead Best Hospitals Rankings

 

Mesothelioma specialty programs played a significant role in determining the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals for Cancer Care annual rankings. For the eighth consecutive year, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston was ranked No. 1, followed by Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York; Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s […]

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WHO Reclassifies Firefighting as High-Risk Occupation for Cancer

 

The World Health Organization has reclassified firefighting to its highest level of occupational risk for cancer after extensive research confirmed an alarming level of malignant mesothelioma incidence. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, which is part of WHO, found that firefighters had a 58% higher risk than the general population of developing mesothelioma, a […]

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Immunotherapy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Treatment

UK Approves Opdivo/Yervoy Immunotherapy for Pleural Mesothelioma

 

Patients with unresectable pleural mesothelioma cancer throughout the United Kingdom will now have the immunotherapy combination of Opdivo and Yervoy as an option after its recent approval by the National Health Service for first-line treatment. The long-awaited approval comes almost two years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted a similar approval of Opdivo […]

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Awareness/Advocacy, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Peritoneal, Pleural, Treatment

MARF to Host International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma

 

Leading medical specialists will gather with mesothelioma patients, families, friends and advocates at the much-anticipated 2022 International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma, July 23, in Chicago. This is an event well worth attending. The day-long symposium will be held at Summit Chicago, a welcoming venue where a wide range of mesothelioma experts will be speaking on […]

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asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News

New Study Underscores Importance of Worldwide Asbestos Ban

 

The push for a worldwide ban on asbestos gained momentum recently with the latest study linking national consumption levels of the toxic mineral with corresponding levels of asbestos-related diseases. An ecological association between asbestos and asbestos-related diseases was made in 70 countries, doubling the number found in a similar study released in 2007. Environmental Health […]

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