The combination of cisplatin plus pemetrexed is the standard first-line chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Carboplatin may replace cisplatin if treatment-related toxicities become a ...

Purpose The etiology, diagnosis, staging, and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma ... improved response rates over other treatments. Malignant mesothelioma is a disease that presents ...

A recent randomized control trial posits arginine depletion as a viable alternative to current systemic treatments based on chemotherapy and immunotherapy for mesothelioma.

HIT-Meso aims to find out how well a new therapy, called Proton Beam Therapy, can be used to treat pleural mesothelioma patients. Proton Beam Therapy is a type of medical treatment that uses high ...

Surgical staging and work-up of patients with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 9:356-60, 1997. McCormack PM, Nagasaki F, Hilaris BS, Martini N. Surgical treatment ...

and malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Pegargiminase is well tolerated, both as a monotherapy and as part of a combination therapy. “Preclinical data revealed various biochemical mechanisms ...

"Asbestos exposure can take a long time before we see the development of cancer like malignant pleural mesothelioma ... there is no treatment to reverse the effects of asbestos.

Malignant mesothelioma is often misdiagnosed, mainly because it has the same symptoms as other conditions, for example, flu or pneumonia, in the case of pleural mesothelioma, which affects the lungs.

Novocure’s commercialized products are approved in certain countries for the treatment of adult patients with glioblastoma, non-small cell lung cancer, malignant pleural mesothelioma and pleural ...