Mesothelioma is a cancer believed to be exclusively caused by asbestos exposure. While researchers have yet to find a cure for it, palliative treatments have been able to ease discomfort and slow the progression of the disease, allowing patients to live longer after diagnosis. The most common treatments are radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
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Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, or TENS, is an effective method of pain relief that involves no drug interactions, is non-addictive and non-invasive, and has no harmful side effects. It can be used to give palliative treatment to those with the asbestos cancer mesothelioma. TENS can also be employed with other traditional means of treatment to [...]
Thursday, April 8, 2010
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The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) have approved a combination of Alimta and Cisplatin for mesothelioma treatments, and other asbestos-associated diseases. The happens to be the first and only drug that is proved to help treat mesothelioma patients having any asbestos-associated disease approved by the FDA. Alimta was endorsed to be used with cisplatin, [...]
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Copyright (c) 2008 Katie Kelley A study from the Department of Molecular Pathology at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Acona, Italy recently found that biomarkers within the body may offer early warning signs for mesothelioma victims. The study focused on biomarkers of mesothelioma cancer and found that biomarkers often form before mesothelioma cancer [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
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Mesothelioma Treatments As mesothelioma is a type of cancer the treatments that are used to combat this disease are very much like the ones used to fight the more common forms of cancer. However, we need to take into consideration different factors when treating cancer patients. These are as follows: the age of the [...]
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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mesotheliomatreatmentoptions.org A lot of elements determine lung cancer survival rates. This kind of cancer, the phase it is at once diagnosed, and the general status of the affected person altogether represent a function in ascertaining lung cancer survival rate.Because they are both delicate and vital to sustaining life, diseases that affect these organs often have [...]
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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Mesothelioma is touted as deadly because most of the cases are in advanced stage when diagnosed and doctors have little solace to offer by then. Mesothelioma is promoted as deadly because most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage, when doctors have little to offer solace by then. Still doctors try to do their [...]
Monday, May 18, 2009
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Treatment of malignant mesothelioma can be very difficult for a wide variety of reasons. First and foremost, mesothelioma can be difficult to correctly diagnose and may not show up in a patient for decades. This can create problems for treatment because with mesothelioma, as with all cancers, treatment is more difficult the longer the [...]
Thursday, April 16, 2009
As a Matter of Law: Mesothelioma Doctor Discusses Mesothelioma Treatments and the Goal of Prolonging the Life of Patients Until a Mesothelioma Cure is Found The guest for this video is Albert Miller, MD, involved with Pulmonary Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine. He…
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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