Mesothelioma symptoms like a cough and shortness of breath can resemble bronchitis, but these diseases have different causes ...

After being used since the 1940s in various industries, asbestos is now linked to severe health risks, including asbestosis, ...

Fig 1. Selected recommendations regarding surgery, pathology, and germline testing for pleural mesothelioma. C, conditional; H, high; IHC, immunohistochemistry; M ...

Purpose The etiology, diagnosis, staging, and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) are reviewed, with an emphasis on clinical trials of newer approaches to first-line, second-line ...

IN 1960 Wagner, Sleggs and Marchand 1 reported 33 cases of diffuse pleural mesothelioma from the North Western Cape Province of South Africa. The collection of such a large number of cases of a ...

While cancer research has experienced significant developments in the past two decades, resulting in considerable improvements in survival rates, for some cancers, progress is painfully slow.  Most of ...

Montana has a rich history of asbestos mining and use. In this state, the Environmental Protection Agency declared for the first time ever a public health emergency and requested federal funding to ...

The anti-PD1 therapy is approved for more than 41 indications in the U.S., and the latest approval marks its first indication in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

New York: The McGraw-Hill Company, 2009. Sugarbaker DJ, Norberto JJ, Swanson SJ. Surgical staging and work-up of patients with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.

The EC approves BMY's combination of Opdivo and Yervoy for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable or ...

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