The role of surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma encompasses the need for rapid diagnosis, preoperative staging and surgical resection, and also the need for a greater biological ...

He notes the challenges of treating malignant pleural mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer of the lung lining that is difficult to remove completely through surgery. “Often, there is residual ...

Biliary Tract Cancer (BTC): KEYTRUDA may be combined with chemotherapy medicines to treat BTC, a cancer that affects the bile ducts or gallbladder. This treatment is for adults when the cancer has ...

Malignant mesothelioma is often misdiagnosed, mainly because it has the same symptoms as other conditions, for example, flu or pneumonia, in the case of pleural mesothelioma, which affects the lungs.

Hedy Lee Kindler, MD, shares new mesothelioma guidelines that have been released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology ...

You can see details of the main clinical trial on the UCL website. HIT-Meso aims to find out how well a new therapy, called Proton Beam Therapy, can be used to treat pleural mesothelioma patients.

IN 1960 Wagner, Sleggs and Marchand 1 reported 33 cases of diffuse pleural mesothelioma from the North Western Cape Province of South Africa. The collection of such a large number of cases of a ...

New York: The McGraw-Hill Company, 2009. Sugarbaker DJ, Norberto JJ, Swanson SJ. Surgical staging and work-up of patients with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.

In 2014, he founded Baylor's Mesothelioma Treatment Center to provide holistic care with subspeciality expertise for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. In this strong tradition of ...

The study compared video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy/decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant ...

After being used since the 1940s in various industries, asbestos is now linked to severe health risks, including asbestosis, ...

Purpose The etiology, diagnosis, staging, and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) are reviewed, with an emphasis on clinical trials of newer approaches to first-line, second-line ...