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New combo drug regimen shows promise ...
22 Apr 2006 at 10:29am
An Italian study (Sequential chemotherapy with cisplatin/gemcitabine (CG) followed by mitoxantrone/methotrexate/mitomycin (MMM) in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma) published in the May 2006 Journal Lung Cancer describes a study of a new 2 phase combination drug regimen that shows goo...
The Median is not the Message - Wisdom from a ...
9 Jan 2006 at 6:11am
Steven Jay Gould was a Evolutionary Biologist at Harvard. He was a giant among Evolutionary theorists and a prolific writer. He also survived 20 years past his diagnosis of abdominal mesothelioma. He died in 2002 at aged 60 of a second apparently unrelated cancer beating his 8 month median surv...
Immunotherapy - What is it and can it be used ...
9 Jan 2006 at 6:01am
Immunotherapy is a collection of technologies that use the patients own immune system to battle cancer. Several approaches have been used and there is a tremendous amount of research going on in this area. For many years the immune system was understood to be the bodies defense against foreign ...
Growth Factors - Another target for Meso treatment ...
26 Dec 2005 at 6:16am
A growth factor is a substance that triggers the growth of some type of cells. There are nerve growth factors, bone growth factors and blood vessel growth factors. These small molecules help maintain a healthy balance between normal growth and development of the body and out of control growth. ...
New Lab Model of Meso may lead to better understanding ...
26 Nov 2005 at 8:21am
Since it is unethical to experiment on people with completely random drugs just to see what happens, scientists rely on laboratory models of disease, sometimes this is an animal model like a mouse and sometimes it is a bunch of cells in a petri dish. This outside the body model of a disease is c...
Apoptosis and Necrosis - Two Paths to Eliminating Cancer Cells ...
4 Nov 2005 at 7:00am
Most normal cells in the body have a defined lifespan. If you put them in a petri dish and manage to grow them, a cell line will divide a certain number of times and eventually die off. Another instance when cells die off is when something goes wrong with the cellular machinery. This error tri...
Asbestosis - A sometimes challenged diagnosis ...
24 Oct 2005 at 6:48am
To the average person, getting a diagnosis of asbestosis, that is non-cancerous lung damage from asbestos should seem straightforward. Unfortunately it can be a long and frustrating path for some, primarily because of the issues of liability and compensation for injury. It is in the asbestos com...
Osteopontin - Rapid rise in blood protein may signal beginning ...
13 Oct 2005 at 6:55am
Last month researchers published a paper describing the role of a protein found in the blood called osteopontin in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. This disease is very similar to Asbestosis where fibrotic tissue forms in the lungs and damages the lungs ability to transfer oxygen to the blood. Th...

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$9.7 Million Awarded in Mesothelioma Case
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14 Aug 2008 at 5:11am
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch A Los Angeles jury awarded $9.7 million to a Georgia man who said he developed mesothelioma after he was exposed to asbestos while serving as a Navy machinist’s mate aboard the USS Preble.  The plaintiff is currently a resident of Georgia, but his ship was based in L...
Federal Grant for New Yorkers Exposed to Asbestos on 9/11
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6 Aug 2008 at 10:50pm
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch Nearly seven years after the destruction of the World Trade Center many New Yorkers continue to suffer from mental and physical health problems. In response, the Centers for Disease Control recently announced it would contribute a grant of $30 million toward treatmen...
Veterans Exposed to Asbestos during Military Service
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4 Aug 2008 at 11:17pm
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch For most of a century asbestos was hailed as a product that combined an efficient insulating effect, and acted as a fire retardant.  That was the good news; asbestos has also long been established that exposure to asbestos and asbestos fibers can cause a number of se...
Navy Veterans High Risk Candidates for Mesothelioma
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3 Aug 2008 at 3:06am
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch Asbestos was a critical element of shipbuilding for many years.  Mesothelioma is the lethal cancer associated with exposure to asbestos fiber ? a disease than has a latency factor of 20 to 50 years.  As a result, the disease has lately become an emerging factor among...
Mesothelioma Foundation Seeks Pentagon Funding
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28 Jul 2008 at 12:03am
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation is leading a charge on the Pentagon budget for money to fund meso research. Their reasoning is simple:  according to a Capitol Hill newsletter,  “?at least one-third of the people suffering from mesothelioma - a lethal for...
British Parliament Acts to Protect Mesothelioma Family Victims
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19 Jul 2008 at 9:50pm
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch In the United States, the rate of fatality among mesothelioma patients is two to three thousand a year.  The UK nearly matches that rate: British mesothelioma deaths occur at the rate of about 2,000 per year.   In both countries it has been established that family me...
Mesothelioma Exposure - What about the Families?
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14 Jul 2008 at 8:31pm
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch Mesothelioma is a particularly aggressive form of cancer that in more than four out of five cases attacks the lungs.  It has become a well-known disease over the last three decades because it is most often caused by exposure to asbestos and because of its lethal natu...
San Francisco Mesothelioma Victim Wins $20 Million Lawsuit
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3 Jul 2008 at 10:26pm
Post from: Mesothelioma Watch A San Francisco jury has awarded a $20 million damages verdict to a woman who was exposed to asbestos while working with her husband in their home remodeling business.  Mrs. Joan Mahoney was awarded the judgment after suing a number of defendants including Georgia Pa...