Mesothelioma Cancer Resources Blog

Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Full Title: The Impact of Lymph Node Station on Survival in 348 Patients with Surgically Resected Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Implications for Revision of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System The current system for staging cases of pleural mesothelioma is based on a TNM model, where …

Source: Pediatric Blood & Cancer Malignant Mesothelioma is most commonly a disease of the older and the elderly. The vast majority of all mesothelioma diagnoses are for men and women (although, mainly men), older that 55 or 60. However, the disease can, albeit very rarely, affect teenagers and young adults. Because mesothelioma is so rarely …

Source: CNNMoney.com Eli Lilly has announced that its cancer drug Alimta, when used in combination with cisplatin, has received FDA approval for the first-line treatment of “locally-advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), for patients with nonsquamous histology.” The FDA’s new approval is the third overall approval that Alimta has received, and the second …