Posts in 2017

Dec 06 Aussie Study Finds That Loose Fill Asbestos Increases Mesothelioma Risk

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra published a new landmark study in the journal, Lancet Public ...

Dec 03 Does Smoking Play A Role In Mesothelioma Diagnosis?

While smoking is the number one cause of cancer related deaths in the United States, asbestos remains the number one cause of ...

Nov 14 Mesothelioma Cell Types

There are three different types of mesothelioma cell types. Cell type can influence the aggressiveness of the cancer, treatment ...

Oct 29 UK Study Concludes Elderly Mesothelioma Patients Can Still Be Good Surgery Candidates

Medical researchers out of Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, England published a report in Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic ...

Oct 24 BAP1 Test Increases Accuracy of Mesothelioma Diagnosis

A new study published in the Chinese Journal of Pathology concluded that testing for the expression of the BAP1 protein increases ...

Oct 19 New Biomarker May Provide Diagnostic Alternative For Frail Patients

Japanese researchers have pointed to a set of proteins found in the lung fluid of people with malignant mesothelioma as a possible ...