Dr. Christine Lau is a thoracic surgeon and the Chief of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the chief of surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is a nationally renowned thoracic and lung transplant surgeon who has significant experience in treating patients with
Dr. Robert C. Miller is a nationally recognized radiation oncologist and the Medical Director of the Maryland Proton Treatment Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a Professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Miller has extensive experience in cancer care and using radiation therapy for the treatment
Dr. Pranshu Mohindra is a radiation oncologist at the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he serves as Professor and Vice-Chair of Operations and Quality for the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Director of the University Hospitals Proton Therapy Center. He is also a senior attending physician with the University Hospitals
Malignant mesothelioma is one of the most challenging diseases confronting modern medicine. The aggressive form of asbestos-related cancer has been resistant to traditional therapies, stymying researchers, frustrating physicians, and devastating patients and their families. A recent study examining variations in lung cancer microenvironments has yielded information that may provide new answers and avenues of exploration
Dr. Prakash Neupane is a medical oncologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, where he specializes in the care of patients with head and neck cancers and thoracic cancers, including lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma. In addition to his clinical role, he is a Professor of Medical Oncology, Program Director
Dr. Gaurav Marwaha is a radiation oncologist, associate professor, and interim chairperson in the Department of Radiation Oncology at RUSH University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. His areas of expertise include the use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy, palliative radiation therapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery for the treatment of patients diagnosed with lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma,
Dr. Arkadiusz Z. Dudek is a medical oncologist and researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is actively involved in developing new cancer therapeutics for lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, kidney cancer, and melanoma, as well as other advanced malignancies. His focus is on identifying targets for therapies in order to lead to improvements in
Dr. Renuka Malik is a radiation oncologist who practices at University of Chicago Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. She specializes in the treatment of thoracic, gastrointestinal, and oligometastatic cancers including malignant pleural mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma, and lung cancer, as well as gynecologic cancers, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and head and neck cancer. Dr. Malik has significant
Dr. Alexandra Funaki is a diagnostic radiology at the University of Chicago’s Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine in Hyde Park, Illinois. She is part of the Department of Radiology – Thoracic Imaging and specializes in pulmonary parenchymal and thoracic vascular imaging. Dr. Funaki analyzes and interprets chest CT scans and radiographs to diagnose thoracic disease.
Starting this morning, a Helena, Montana jury will begin hearing a claim filed by the families of two Libby, Montana mesothelioma victims. The survivors accuse BNSF Railway of negligently exposing their loved ones to asbestos during the years when the W.R. Grace & Co. mine operated near the town.