The mesothelioma diagnosis you received from your doctor probably right then and there erased all doubt as to whether the cancer was present inside you. However, there was still a margin for error. For quite some time now, researchers have been quietly arguing about the best way to eliminate that margin for error. The dispute
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The mesothelioma growing on the lining of your lungs could be vulnerable to a devastating attack through a pathway provided by an obscure cellular protein. Scientists raised this possibility just over a month ago at the annual meeting of the European Society for Medical Oncology in Madrid, Spain. The pathway exists because mesothelioma cells in
Say you want to launch a gene attack against mesothelioma tumors. If you can choose between having weaponized cells infused into your body by IV drip or plastered directly onto the tumor, pick the latter. Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City found that direct administration of chimeric antigen receptor cells
The possibility that you might be cured of mesothelioma by an injection of micro-robots is the stuff of science fiction. Or perhaps it isn’t. The 2014 Johnny Depp movie “Transcendence” had a scene where people with cancer and other diseases were cured after Depp’s character injected them with micro-robots. An armada of the tiny machines
Researchers recently threw cold water on the idea that a gene present in mesothelioma patients might make a good target for treatment by using lab-modified tyrosine kinases inhibitors. It has been thought — and hoped — that the gene FGFR1 might be a suitable place to launch a molecular attack once mesothelioma cells start massing. FGFR1
If you’re a man, you are far more likely than a woman to develop or have mesothelioma. But in certain locales around the U.S., the opposite is true. Why women in those places should be more prone than men to become mesothelioma patients is a mystery. But a recently awarded $10-million federal grant to mesothelioma
First there was delivery of your Amazon orders by drone. Next, there’ll be drone delivery of your targeted mesothelioma therapies. Except instead of delivering to the doorstep of your home, these drones will deliver to the doorstep of the mesothelioma tumors inside you. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston earlier this month demonstrated
Researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, think they’ve stumbled onto a gene partnership that, when it fails, lets mesothelioma cells move throughout your body. Keeping this gene partnership intact could therefore be a way to slow or even stop the spread of mesothelioma, they say. The researchers’ findings were reported in a
Scientists associated with the Polaris Group report good news about the company’s experimental drug to treat mesothelioma — it does a fine job of screwing up the internal operations of mesothelioma cells. The drug is ADI-PEG 20. It appears to trigger destructive changes in the genetic expression of cells that suffer from a shortage of a
If you have mesothelioma it might be because your genes — the ones you inherited from mom and dad — make you particularly vulnerable to diseases caused by asbestos exposure. Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia have uncovered fresh evidence that mesothelioma susceptibility is passed down from one generation to the next. This may explain
