Treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a challenge as the incidence is expected to increase in the next following decades and the prognosis remains poor. We present a case introducing different aspects in the treatment of MPM. We highlight the management of pleural effusion and ...
Stage 4 mesothelioma is the most advanced stage of this asbestos-related cancer. In this late stage, the mesothelioma cells have spread to distant body parts. Extensive tumor spread makes it difficult to treat. Surgery cannot remove this end stage of mesothelioma because mesothelioma cells and resu...
have received radiation treatment to your chest area in the past and have received other medicines that are like OPDIVO have a condition that affects your nervous system, such as myasthenia gravis or Guillain-Barré syndrome are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. OPDIVO and YERVOY can harm your...
During mesothelioma radiation therapy, electrons are aimed at the tumor to prevent epithelial cells from multiplying. Radiation therapy is usually combined with other treatment methods like chemotherapy and surgery, but it can also be used on its own to reduce pain in patients diagnosed with pleural...
Canada, recentlyannouncedthe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unr...
Apoptosis has been established as a mechanism of anti-cancer defense. Members of the BCL-2 family are critical mediators of apoptotic cell death in health and disease, often found to be deregulated in cancer and believed to lead to the survival of malign
Apoptosis has been established as a mechanism of anti-cancer defense. Members of the BCL-2 family are critical mediators of apoptotic cell death in health and disease, often found to be deregulated in cancer and believed to lead to the survival of malign
PDT is an alternative therapeutic modality to treat neoplastic diseases that combines the use of a photosensitizer (PS), light, and molecular oxygen (O2) (Milla Sanabria et al., 2013). A PS is a molecule capable of absorbing electromagnetic radiation producing electronically excited species which ...
with the capacity to regulate HERV transactivation and the activity of host genes [6] (see Fig.1). However, over millions of years, integrated HERV sequences have accumulated mutations in their ORFs leaving them replication defective and for the most part unable to move within the genome. In...
How do I treat……a patient with malignant pleural mesothelioma?Malignant mesothelioma is rare and poses some unique challenges. The practising oncologist is oftendoi:10.1097/01.OTU.0000411000.57172.a6KrugLee MOncology Times Uk