Mesothelioma Cancer Resources Blog

Source: New York Times.Com The New York Times has an article on the uneven nature of care given to cancer patients across the country. The article details the struggles of Karen Pasqualetto to find the best treatment for the cancer she was diagnosed with at 35. Mrs. Pasqualetto had just given birth to a daughter …

Source: University of Virginia Researchers from the University of Virginia (UVA) have developed an algorithm that is designed to predict the best possible treatments for a particular tumor-type for individual patients. Dan Theodorescu, M.D., Ph.D., a UVA oncologist and cancer biologist, and Jae Lee, Ph.D., a computational biologist and bioinformatics statistician, have devised an algorithm …

Source: CancerPage.Com Researchers have discovered that high concentrations of soluble mesothelin in both pleural and peritoneal effusions strongly correlate with the presence of mesothelioma. Dr. Jenette Creaney, who previously discovered that high levels of soluble mesothelin was present in the blood of people with mesothelioma, has provided another avenue of detection for people with this …

Source: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics This abstract describes the development of a potentially new treatment modality for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Tyrosine kinase c-Src has been shown to be have significant effects on the growth of cancer cells, so researchers looked at what effect the inhibition of c-Src would have on these cells and the initial results …

Source: GlobeandMail.Com The Canadian Cancer Society has announced its endorsement of a ban on the export of asbestos and is petitioning the Canadian government to stop blocking international efforts to halt asbestos use. While Canadian industry doesn’t use asbestos in many products, it is still an export product for the country – most of which …

Source: BBC News The UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has reversed course and approved Altima (Pemetrexed) for use in patients with advanced mesothelioma. Citing the expense of the drug, the Institute had previously stated that Altima was only to be used in ongoing or in new clinical trials. However, after an intense …

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sen. Patty Murray has announced that her bill to ban asbestos, known as the “Ban Asbestos in America Act of 2007″, is progressing through Congress and will have a reading before the Environment and Public Works Committee later this month. This is the first time the bill has reached the markup stage. …

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer profiles Judy Clauson, a forty-four year-old mother of two who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma. Ms. Clauson is part of the disturbing trend of the next generation of mesothelioma victims: younger than previous victims and a woman, with no direct exposure to asbestos. Her exposure was from the clothes …