The three main ways to treat mesothelioma are by surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Of these, the one used least often is radiation therapy. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City say radiation therapy ought to be used more often. They say this because they have done research
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Putting onconase together with dihydroartemisinin may be an effective treatment against mesothelioma. The key word there is “may.” The combination of onconase and dihydroartemisinin has only been tested so far in the lab. It hasn’t yet been tried on mesothelioma patients. Even so, researchers in China are all smiles about what they’ve seen onconase and
New research from Italy suggests that mesothelioma treatment strategies need to be a lot more flexible than they have been up until now. That’s because mesothelioma cells are themselves a lot more flexible than previously understood. This new research makes clear just how flexible they are. Actually a better word than “flexible” might be “adaptable.”
Earlier this year, we told you about efforts to invent machines that can examine your breath for signs of mesothelioma. You might remember us mentioning that these efforts are underway in several countries around the world. The latest news on this front comes from Belgium. Researchers there have been studying the idea of breath testing
The best care that mesothelioma treatment has to offer is from a multidisciplinary team. Make sure that you are not missing out on it. A multidisciplinary team is where you have doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals from different areas of medicine working together on your case. In the past, the usual way mesothelioma patients
Veterans Day is Friday, Nov. 11. It is a day to honor all who served in the U.S. armed forces and made sacrifices for America. Loss of health was one such sacrifice. For many, the price of that sacrifice was mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a cancer that initially strikes the linings of the lungs, heart and
You have the best chances of surviving mesothelioma if your treatment starts before the cancer starts spreading. That means you should have surgery, chemotherapy or radiation while your mesothelioma is still in an early stage. The trouble is that you can’t be treated for mesothelioma at all until your doctor discovers you have it. For
Timing is everything. That’s true whether you are buying stocks or telling a joke. It’s especially true if you are being treated for mesothelioma. A team of researchers from Britain, Australia and Italy recently looked at whether the timing of when you start chemotherapy makes a difference to your mesothelioma survival. They said it could
