The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has good news for people with mesothelioma. The FDA is cutting some red tape so that the anti-mesothelioma drug galinpepimut-S can become available in the United States. The FDA’s decision won’t make galinpepimut-S available overnight. It just helps speed things up so that the drug can become available
Monthly Archives: September 2016
It turns out that most people who are exposed to asbestos and go on to develop mesothelioma have a mutated gene. Scientists think that the exposure to asbestos causes the gene to mutate. The mutated gene then helps mesothelioma get started. But a recent study by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Acibadem University
Monday, Sept. 26, is Mesothelioma Awareness Day. People from all over the country and from many different walks of life will come together today to spread the word about this vicious form of cancer. As many as 3,000 Americans are typically diagnosed with mesothelioma in any given year. As a result, for most people, mesothelioma
One of the best things you can do on Mesothelioma Awareness Day is slip into your most comfortable shoes and participate in a nationwide Virtual Race called iWalk4MESO. You don’t have to walk for long or far to join in. iWalk4MESO was started by Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. and is an important but simple way
One way to treat mesothelioma is with surgery. Another way to treat mesothelioma is with immunotherapy drugs (although these are not yet a recognized standard of care). Some mesothelioma specialists say it’s possible to get better quality of life and longer mesothelioma survival if these two ways of treating mesothelioma are combined. Other mesothelioma specialists
iWalk4MESO is an important event taking place on Sept. 26 — Mesothelioma Awareness Day. Mesothelioma Awareness Day exists to open eyes all across America to the problem of mesothelioma. Weitz & Luxenberg started the iWalk4MESO Virtual Race to help raise funds for mesothelioma research. The purpose of the race is also to greatly increase the number
Doctors routinely have you start taking vitamin B12 in the days before you begin mesothelioma chemotherapy that uses the drug pemetrexed. You take B12 to counteract an effect pemetrexed has on your body. Among the things pemetrexed does is it interferes with your body’s natural production of folate. You need folate because it helps keep
Pleural effusions are a big problem if you have mesothelioma. Pleural effusion is the medical term for excess fluid in the space between the inner and outer linings of your lungs. Mesothelioma causes this excess fluid. The excess fluid is bad because it makes it harder for you to breathe. It also adds to your
Your doctor wants to be able to give you an accurate prognosis for survival after you’re diagnosed with or treated for mesothelioma. There are a number of approaches doctors can use for making mesothelioma prognoses. Some of these approaches are more accurate than others. But all are pretty good. The problem is that most of
The best strategy for treating diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a combination of cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy). That’s what French researchers writing in the European Journal of Cancer believe after examining 23 years worth of medical records from patients with diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. You should therefore feel more confident about cytoreductive
