A new survey from The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com highlights growing selectivity in surgical recommendations while keeping surgery on the table for certain pleural mesothelioma patients.

Although surgery can prolong the lives of patients with an aggressive type of cancer called malignant pleural mesothelioma, many patients avoid the operation for fear it will degrade their quality of ...

Results of clinical research that treated mesothelioma with radiation before surgery show the three-year survival rate more than doubled for study participants afflicted with this deadly disease, ...

In the recovery room, you’ll have one to one nursing care. The nurse looks after you until you are awake and well enough to go back to the ward. Everybody is different when they are waking up after an ...

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 ...

In a study published recently in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found that treating patients who have resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma, ...

Immunotherapy before surgery improved survival and tumor response rates in pleural mesothelioma patients, potentially reducing recurrence risk. The phase 2 trial involved Imfinzi alone or combined ...

The role of radical surgery in the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma has been the subject of much heated debate in the last few years, as thoracic surgeons argue over the details of a small ...

Results from an early phase clinical trial presented this week at the World Conference on Lung Cancer Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, and published in the Nature Medicine journal today [Monday, 8 th ...

Many mesothelioma patients avoid surgery for fear it will degrade their quality of life. But a study has found just the opposite: Patients who underwent an operation called pleurectomy and ...