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Experts Point to Climate Change’s Impact on Cancers Like Malignant Mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is an asbestos-related disease that is traditionally (and appropriately) associated with occupational settings. Most victims are those who have been exposed to the carcinogen in factories, in high-heat settings like boiler rooms, and while working on construction sites doing insulation work, working with asbestos concrete, and ceiling and floor tile installation or removal.
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Italian Researchers Find Silencing Gene May Help Slow Mesothelioma
For researchers investigating malignant mesothelioma, any progress — no matter how incremental — is to be celebrated. The disease has proven remarkably resistant to treatment, so when scientists identify a way to slow the rare form of cancer’s spread it is notable. Such is the case of a recent discovery by Italian researchers that is detailed
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Fasting-Mimicking Diet Combined with Vitamin C Shows Promise Against Genetic Mutation Found in Mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is one of the most challenging types of cancer to treat. This is partially due to the disease not being diagnosed until it is in an advanced stage, and partially due to its extreme resistance to chemotherapy. That resistance has been linked to a variety of genetic mutations including a mutation in the
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International Cancer Group Issues COVID-19 Guidance Helpful to Mesothelioma Patients
COVID-19 has struck fear into the hearts of people all over the world, but perhaps none as much as those at high risk due to serious illnesses like malignant mesothelioma. Cancer patients are not only generally more vulnerable to disease: they also rely upon regular medical treatment, and going for those treatments in the presence
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Study Show that Shipbuilders’ Elevated Mesothelioma Risk in America is Echoed In Nordic Countries
The United States sees an average of 3,500 people diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma each and every year, and a large proportion of those who have the disease are able to track their asbestos exposure to their days working on ships or in actually building seagoing vessels. That trend is not unique to the United States,
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Mesothelioma Treatment, Clinical Trials Impacted by COVID-19
All around the country people’s lives have been turned upside down by COVID-19, but perhaps none so much as those who were already dealing with the unthinkable — a mesothelioma diagnosis. Where the rest of us are rightly concerned about jobs lost or put on hold, separation from family members and friends, and the availability of
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Spanish Mesothelioma Study Shows Improved Progression Free Survival
For those diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, an additional few months of feeling good and being able to maintain a normal quality of life is a great gift, and that is what researchers from Madrid’s 12 de Octubre University Hospital are seeing from their testing of a new first-line treatment called ONCOS-102. According to principal investigator Luis
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Philadelphia School Teacher’s Mesothelioma Captures City’s Attention
Malignant mesothelioma diagnoses rarely command headlines in local newspapers, and especially not in the paper for the sixth-most populous city in the country. But that is exactly what is happening in the city of Philadelphia, where the Philadelphia Inquirer is closely following the case of Lea DiRusso.
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Could Tiny Corkscrew Robots Hold the Key to Killing Mesothelioma Cells?
In the battle against malignant mesothelioma, one of the biggest frustrations endured by both physicians and patients is the fact that the disease has proven so resistant to traditional treatments. Even the only chemotherapy treatment to receive FDA approval for treatment of the asbestos-related disease provides only marginal results, delivering harmful side effects with only
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Study Reveals that Asbestos’ Deadly Reach Extends Beyond Mesothelioma
Mention an asbestos-related disease and malignant mesothelioma is likely the first that comes to mind. But according to a recent study conducted by researchers from Finland and Australia, the carcinogenic material is likely to blame for many other types of cancer, and particularly for lung cancer in those who smoke.
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Conflicting Asbestos Testimony Leads Judge to Allow Mesothelioma Case to Proceed
Mesothelioma lawsuits are all about getting justice. A person who has been diagnosed with the rare and fatal form of cancer – or sometimes their surviving loved ones – is seeking compensation for the loss that they have suffered as a result of a company exposing them to the carcinogenic material that caused their illness
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COVID-19 Impact on Mesothelioma Patients
According to a preliminary study, fear of the coronavirus is keeping patients diagnosed with mesothelioma and other cancers away from healthcare services, and that is likely to result in an increase in their death rates in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Based on current statistics, the study’s authors anticipate almost 34,000 excess cancer
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Canine Mesothelioma Detections Now Being Applied to Coronavirus
Over the last few years there has been considerable optimism at the possibility that dogs could be trained to detect malignant mesothelioma and other cancers from the exhaled breath of patients suspected of having those diseases. The research has been based on identifying volatile organic compounds that are consistently found in mesothelioma patients’ breath, and
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Researchers Identify Workaround for Chemotherapy Resistance in Mesothelioma Patients
Patients diagnosed with cancer can generally anticipate effective, survival-enhancing treatment with chemotherapy, but for patients diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma that familiar protocol may prove ineffective. That’s because the rare and fatal form of cancer has proven particularly resistant to chemotherapy. But now a group of researchers from Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mesothelioma Victim Blames Lab Equipment for Terminal Illness
Malignant mesothelioma is caused by exposure to asbestos, and that exposure can come from a wide range of sources. Victims have identified products ranging from brake linings and boiler insulation to artificial snow and baby powder. Last month the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Pennsylvania heard testimony in the case of a
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Researchers’ Work May Lead to Better Mesothelioma Treatments
Though malignant mesothelioma is a unique form of cancer that has proven resistant to standard treatment protocols, there has been evidence that innovative approaches such as immunotherapy and gene therapy may be effective. Unfortunately, those protocols are both expensive and time consuming. Now a group of researchers led by a team from UCLA has reported
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New Study Links Talc to Malignant Mesothelioma
In the midst of an avalanche of lawsuits filed by malignant mesothelioma victims against companies selling and manufacturing talc-based products, consumer giants like Johnson & Johnson, Avon and Colgate Palmolive have argued that their talc has no asbestos contamination and that talc does not cause the rare and fatal disease. But a recent study conducted
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What Mesothelioma Patients Need to Know About Depression
The idea that being diagnosed with a terminal illness like malignant mesothelioma would make a person feel depressed hardly comes as a surprise, but there is a significant difference between feeling down and dejected and being clinically depressed. While feeling sad, angry or grieving the loss of your future is a healthy response to any kind
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Johnson & Johnson Seeks New Trial Following $750 Million Mesothelioma Verdict
Last February, a New Jersey jury handed down a resounding verdict in a multi-plaintiff malignant mesothelioma lawsuit. It decided that Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder had been responsible for the victims’ illness, and that the company should pay a punishing $750 million in punitive damages. This week the consumer giant argued that the verdict should
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Mesothelioma Victim Claims His Illness Came From Asbestos in Ceramics Studio Talc
A man diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma has filed a mesothelioma lawsuit against the seller of talc products used in his wife’s ceramics studio. Stanley Peterson’s claim against Vanderbilt Mineral, LLC has been making its way through the New York City Asbestos Litigation courts, and has finally been freed to move forward after Justice of
