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A new study has come out of Sweden’s Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umea University concerning the risk of asbestos exposure to construction workers. The results indicate that more construction workers than previously thought may be at risk for developing pleural mesothelioma.  The rise in the risk of asbestos exposure points to » Read More

Researchers from Mount Sinai Health System and the Department of Population Health at North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital recently reported some interesting findings on gender and mesothelioma in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. The study examined records of 14,200 mesothelioma patients who were diagnosed with mesothelioma from 1973 to 2009. Of these cases, 22 » Read More

Hope may be on the horizon for patients diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma. A new treatment that uses genetically modified cells is just one of several in the breakthrough field of immunotherapy. Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have developed a method of genetically altering the DNA of a patient’s T cells and then » Read More

Doctors at the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute and Sydney Medical School in Australia are claiming that based on their multi-national research, as many as 47%  of mesothelioma patients who might benefit from chemotherapy treatment are not being given the option. The doctors reached their conclusions by comparing data on mesothelioma patients and their tumor characteristics » Read More