Category: Treatments

Oncologists in the UK report they successfully treated two patients with liver cancer using a “chemo bath.”  The procedure, that involves directly saturating the liver with heated chemotherapy, has previously been used in the United States and other countries on patients with peritoneal mesothelioma and other cancers. According to an article last week in Medical …

More and more often, doctors rely on information found on the internet, through smartphone apps, and from colleagues via social media sites to determine a treatment option for patients with rare diseases, such as mesothelioma, and other cancers.  The complexity of the diseases demands that physicians do thorough research before developing a treatment plan. Although …

Mesothelioma is a serious and rare cancer that occurs in individuals that have either inhaled or swallowed asbestos fibers.  The fibers then travel through the body becoming lodged, resulting in cancer typically decades later.   Currently there is no known cure for mesothelioma, and the prognosis is grim with the average survival time varying from 4 …