Mesothelioma Cancer Resources Blog

Source: ABC SouthWest Researches from the University of Western Australia are beginning a study that will examine the impact of asbestos exposure on women. This is the first study to focus exclusively on women and could illuminate previously unknown patterns of malignancy, such as the relationship between ovarian cancer and asbestos exposure.

Source: CVax Magazine: Cancer Vaccines CVax Magazine: Cancer Vaccines is a website dedicated to educating the public on the use of vaccines in the treatment of cancer. Vaccine-based cancer treatment will take one of two forms: the develpoment of a vaccine to prevent the development of cancer, such as Gardisil, which protects against most causes …

Source: Wall Street Journal Raising money for research has always been a fundamental problem in the development of new treatments for any medical condition, whether cancer or AIDS or anything else. With budgets tight and staffing often thin, many researchers scramble to find whatever funding they can. However, this is not the only problem in …

Source: New York Times. The development of increasingly successful cancer treatments ranks among the most important of the great medical breakthroughs over the last five or ten years. As more and more patients are surviving cancer though, many of these people are also suffering from the significant side effects of these life-saving treatments – side …

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is convening a review board that will draft a risk assessment for asbestos fibers and certain environmental groups have protested the inclusion of certain individuals on the EPA’s “short list” of those who may be invited to the panel. Some of the people on the list …

Source: Alfacell Corporation Dr. Michele Carbone, one of the world’s leading mesothelioma researchers, has discovered that Alfacell Corporation’s ONCONASE has great potential as a chemopreventative agent for mesothelioma. ONCONASE triggers apoptosis, the natural death of cells, in cancer cells and has been shown to block the pathway that causes asbestos carcinogenesis. Dr. Carbone’s initial research …

Source: InsuranceNewsNet The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) has released its latest report on the patient profile of asbestos victims. Contrary to what many people’s view are on asbestos exposure, ADAO reported that the average victim is aged 50, which is younger than what has been previously been reported, is a woman, also contrary to …

Source: World Health Organization The World Health Organization is calling on governments to enact meaningful reform to workplace safety laws and to increase the measures used to protect workers from work-related injury or death. At least 200,000 people die every year from work-caused cancers and millions more are regularly exposed to carcinogenic agents that can …

Source: CancerMonthly.com In an interview with CancerMonthly.com, Dr. David Sugarbaker, a thoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, stated that the goal of every surgery for pleural mesothelioma should be a macroscopic complete resection (MCR), where all tumor tissue visible to the human eye is removed. According to Dr. Sugarbaker, if all …

Source: CancerMonthly.Com Research into the treatment of mesothelioma is taking place on many fronts. While the typical treatment regimen is still a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, new avenues of therapy are being researched and many hold great promise for the future. Some of these cutting-edge therapies target the molecular pathways by which the …