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Source: CNNMoney.Com Strativa Pharmaceuticals and Alfacell Corporation have announced that Strativa has acquired the commercialization rights for Alfacell’s mesothelioma drug Onconase. Strativa paid an initial charge of $5 million for the exclusive right to market Onconase in the United States and its territories and will pay up to $30 million for it if FDA approval …

Source: Armato III SG, et al., Current state and future directions of pleural mesothelioma imaging, Lung Cancer (2007), doi:10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.09.027 Imaging is one of the most important aspects of cancer diagnostics. It allows the physician team to look at—and respond to—a number of different aspects of a person’s disease, including tumor extent, invasion of distant body …

Source: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration is useful for nodal staging in patients with pleural mesothelioma (Diagn Cytopathol. 2008 Jan;36(1):32-7) Effective surgical management of mesothelioma requires the identification of the extent of actual tumor mass, as well as the identification of the malignant status of a patient’s lymph nodes. The former is important so the …