Past exposure to asbestos will dramatically increase the chances of a smoker developing lung cancer, a fact that may gain considerable atte...
Monday, December 9, 2013
High Dose Radiation with Pleurectomy Shows Promise in Controlling Mesothelioma
High dose radiation therapy, as a follow-up to aggressive pleurectomy/decortication surgery for patients with pleural mesothelioma, has pro...
Mesothelioma Research Takes a Hit with Tissue Bank Defunding
The future of the National Mesothelioma Virtual Tissue Bank is in jeopardy after its federal funding was eliminated earlier this year, send...
Second Round of Cytoreductive Surgery/HIPEC Could Benefit Mesothelioma Patients
Mesothelioma patients could benefit significantly from a second round of cytoreductive surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherap...
Overlooked Lymph Nodes Could Improve Staging, Treatment of Mesothelioma
The future staging and treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma could be improved significantly by a new tool recently uncovered by rese...
Surgeon Rodney Landreneau Returns to Louisiana to Treat Mesothelioma Patients
Rodney Landreneau, M.D., spent more than 20 years working tirelessly at the renowned University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, carving his r...
NCI Research Unlocks Potential of Immunotoxins for Mesothelioma
An inability to unlock the vast potential of the SS1P immunotoxin and use it effectively for patients with mesothelioma has frustrated rese...
Firefighters Face Increased Risk of Developing Cancers, Including Mesothelioma
Some might consider firefighting an admirable career choice, but it also increases the long-range risk for various cancers and more than do...
Weighing the Value, Benefits of Continued Drug Tests on Chimpanzees
Research on nonhuman primates began relatively innocently with behavior studies in the 1920s in the United States. By the 1940s, biomedical...
New Clinical Trial Tests Drug to Control Mesothelioma Cancer Stem Cells
A recently launched, international clinical trial that involves the targeted killing of mesothelioma cancer stem cells soon could provide a...
Old Main Power Plant That Heats U of M Must Be Remediated of Asbestos, Toxic Materials Before Necessary Renovations
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Old Main Power Plant has provided heat and power to the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota for dec...
Department of Energy Fined $115K By EPA for Asbestos Removal Violations at Decommissioned Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Richland, Washington - A nuclear production complex from the Manhattan Project era is embroiled in an asbestos removal controversy. The de...
Popular Military Surplus Gas Mask Used for Halloween Contains Deadly Asbestos
Salt Lake City, Utah - If it was not for Steve Dixon's professional curiosity, many unsuspecting Halloween revelers may have been unin...
Owners of Controversial Wisconsin Mine Hesitant to Say Asbestos Is In The Rocks
Hurley, Wisconsin - In less than a month after Tom Fitz, Professor of Geoscience at Northland College, found rocks containing asbestos-lik...
Owner of a Massachusetts Contracting Firm Accused of Illegally Dumping Asbestos
Worcester, Massachusetts - Charges have been filed against the owner of a Worcester, Massachusetts contracting firm for allegedly mishandl...
Debris From a South Carolina Fire Reveals Asbestos, Neighbors Concerned Over Potential Health Threat
Georgetown, South Carolina - Residents of Georgetown, South Carolina have growing concerns over a potential health threat when wreckage fr...
Privacy VS Double-Dipping: FACT Act Up for Debate in House
Washington, DC - This week the House of Representatives will debate and put up for a vote a bill designed to curtail on-going fraud in asb...
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