Mesothelioma Cancer Resources Blog

Mesothelioma patients and their doctors often focus treatments on improving the patient’s quality of life.  Treatments aimed to relieve pain and pressure, and to restore lost breathing functions, can afford patients the ability to be mobile and enjoy some routine day-to-day activities.  Now, researchers at the Mayo Clinic are looking at a patient’s quality of …

Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have been busy in their labs developing circulating tumor cell (CTC) tests that could find a single mesothelioma cancer cell circulating among the billion healthy cells in a person’s bloodstream.  Both tests utilize a compound that attaches to …

According to many researchers and physicians, the only real way to successfully combat mesothelioma and other cancers is through personalized medicine.  Targeting treatment to a patient’s unique genetic characteristics optimizes the potential for success of the treatment and can extend a patient’s survival.  Now, researchers have found a way to use a patient’s DNA to …