Aduro Biotech, Inc. today announced the presentation of updated data from an ongoing Phase 1b clinical trial of its immunotherapy product candidate CRS-207 in combination with pemetrexed and cisplatin as front-line treatment for patients with unresecta…
A jury has awarded $8.75 million to a 65-year-old man who has incurable cancer as a result of asbestos exposure in the 1970s. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that David Hoff’s attorneys say the former construction worker’s mesothelioma was caused by a wallboard product that became airborne when it was sanded down.
Veterans from all branches of the military were once at risk of asbestos exposure. Even today, asbestos exposure remains an issue in the military, although it’s much less likely for those currently in service to come into contact with the harmful mineral.
Five Prime Therapeutics Announces Updated Data in Mesothelioma Patients from Ongoing Phase 1b Trial of FP-1039 Presented at 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting Objective response rate of 39% and disease control rate of 100% in patients at or below the maximum tol…
Last night, comedian Quincy Jones opened his heart to HBO viewers with “Quincy Jones: Burning the Light,” a one-hour special about his personal battle with mesothelioma. “There is no cancer when I am on that stage,” the 31-year-old told the audience at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. “It is only me telling my jokes….
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A dumpster left by a city contractor weeks ago was left in the middle of the street in a Detroit neighborhood.
PITTSFIELD >> The South County Relay For Life is in a couple of weeks. For those who don’t know, it’s a weekend event that raises awareness of cancer and raises money for cancer research.
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a 71-year-old retired cleaner who had never knowingly come into contact with asbestos, but died from a cancer usually caused by the deadly mineral. Pauline Verity, of Bradford Road, Keighley, worked at a butcher’s making sausages, then at Bingley’s Andertons Engineering, making fastening clips before spending more than 20 years at Morton Close Nursing Home in Crossflatts.
The White House says it will back a bipartisan bill to overhaul asbestos regulation, but Senator Rand Paul put a hold on it.
It’s been just over two months since Ellen DeGeneres helped terminally-ill aspiring comedian Quincy Jones land an HBO special – and now, he’s just one day away from having his story hit the small screen. In anticipation of Thursday’s Quincy Jones: Burning the Light premiere, Jones, 32, opened up to Entertainment Weekly about his cancer battle, his comedy special and his perspective on life after being diagnosed with stage-4 mesothelioma cancer last year and was told that he has only a year to live.
It’s easy to get disenchanted and even disheartened in DC. So many people arrive here with ambitious and genuine goals of changing the world only to be held back by political realities that so often plague Capitol Hill.
Mesothelioma, a rare and deadly cancer, is a cancer that affects the mesothelium, which is the lining that surrounds internal organs. Pleural mesothelioma is cancer that appears in the lining of the lungs, and accounts for about 75% of all mesothelioma cases. Aggressive cancers such as mesothelioma take a toll on the victim’s immune system,
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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Comedian Quincy Jones, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, is looking forward to his HBO special airing Thursday. The 32-year-old comedian, who shares his name with the renowned music producer , was diagnosed in 2015 with a rare form of cancer…
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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