Lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma are often confused, so it’s important to understand the key differences between them, including tumor location and treatments. Lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma ...

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 understanding ...

A new research paper titled "Comparison of FDG-PET/CT and CT for evaluation of tumor response to nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination therapy and prognosis prediction in patients with unresectable ...

Nobody likes to talk or think about cancer, but it’s a serious disease that we should all aim to understand a little better. Better understanding the signs and symptoms of cancer, as well as how to ...

Mesothelioma is a cancer that develops in the thin tissue that lines some internal organs. It most frequently develops in the ...

A 70-year-old female with diabetes, hypertension, and a 20 pack-year smoking history presented with new onset cough. She had pleuritic chest pain with dyspnea on exertion, without any fever or ...

The combination statistically significantly improved overall survival, reducing the risk of death by 21% compared with chemotherapy alone. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Keytruda ...

This review summarises the results of previously conducted clinical trials, and subsequently presents data arising from all phase II–III studies on chemotherapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2012;69(5):377-385. Controversy continues to surround the possibility of a viral etiology of MPM, specifically with regard to simian virus (SV) 40, which may have been a ...