Category: Clinical Trial

For patients with mesothelioma and other diseases that are difficult to treat, clinical trials can mean the difference in survival. Finding the appropriate clinical trial can be challenging for patients. However, the founders of TrialReach have created a service to make it easier for anyone to find, understand, and join clinical trials. TrialReach works with …

Doctors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York have recently been conducting a clinical trial to test a Wilms Tumor-1 (WT1) vaccine to see if it delays or prevents malignant pleural mesothelioma from growing back after surgery. Don Smitley, a mesothelioma survivor, was a participant in that trial. Now, researchers at MSKCC have …

According to the National Institutes of Health, clinical trials are at the heart of all medical advances. Clinical trials serve to uncover better ways to treat, prevent, diagnose and understand human disease. They provide mesothelioma researchers with critical information needed to allow them to move their findings from the lab to patients. Mesothelioma is an …