Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Sheree E. Chen; Makala B. Pace Disclosures Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012;69 (5):377-385.

Novocure’s commercialized products are approved in certain countries for the treatment of adult patients with glioblastoma, non-small cell lung cancer, malignant pleural mesothelioma and pleural ...

Stages of malignant pleural mesothelioma The stages of mesothelioma range from I (1) through IV (4). As a rule, the lower the number, the less the cancer has spread. A higher number, such as stage IV, ...

Background: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an asbestos related tumour difficult to detect early and treat effectively. Asbestos causes genetic modifications and cell signalling events that ...

In a group of 23 patients with histologically confirmed malignant mesothelioma of the pleura who could not recall exposure to asbestos dust, survival was significantly longer than in a group of 83 ...

Mesothelioma is a rare but almost always fatal form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure. It is predominantly detected among ...

Oncovita, a biotechnology company developing innovative virus-based immunotherapies for cancer treatment, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation (ODD) ...

This trial looked at a drug called vorinostat (also known as MK0683) for mesothelioma of the lung that continued to grow despite having chemotherapy. The results of this trial were published in 2015.

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BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Suffolk County jury has awarded $8 million in favor of Janice Paluzzi, a Massachusetts woman who developed mesothelioma after decades of using Johnson & Johnson’s ...