Mesothelioma Cancer Resources Blog

by Nancy Meredith NPR’s “Science Friday” recently hosted Harvard’s Donald Ingber, director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, to discuss the Institute’s quest to develop an organ-on-a-chip system. This seemingly science fiction technology could eventually replace the animal model for drug testing.  It may also allow mesothelioma researchers to mimic the absorption of …

Explaining the facts and nuances of mesothelioma and cancer is challenging.  Most often, patients and their families are given articles outlining symptoms and treatments, followed by another article citing statistics that are meant to help them understand their prognosis.  These articles then lead to other articles that they need to hunt down in order to …

For the first time ever, organizations from across the globe joined together to call for “a global ban on the mining, use, and export of all forms of asbestos.” A committee of scientists from 13 epidemiology societies issued the statement this week after confirming “that all types of asbestos fiber are causally implicated in the …