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Resolution Proposes Mesothelioma Awareness Week for April 2010 - AboutMesothelioma.net

2010-03-09
Surviving MesotheliomaResolution Proposes Mesothelioma Awareness Week for April 2010AboutMesothelioma.netMax Baucus of Montana has introduced a resolution proposing the first week of April 2010 as Mesothelioma Awareness Week to improve public understanding of ...Mesothelioma Vaccine Holds PromiseAsbestos.Net NewsElectrician's Mesothelioma Death Highlights Asbestos RiskSurviving Mesothelioma9-11 Responders Have Access to Mesothelioma-Causing Asbestos Health Screening ...MesotheliomaHelp.net (blog)Ivanhoe -openPR (press release) -Asbestos.comall 20 news articles »

Mediastinoscopy – International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) Pre-Op Test - Galiher DeRobertis Ono

2010-03-10
Mediastinoscopy – International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) Pre-Op TestGaliher DeRobertis OnoPatients at the International Mesothelioma Program (IMP) at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts who have a confirmed diagnosis of ...

Mesothelioma News - Asbestos Insurance Litigation Conference - WiredPRNews.com (press release)

2010-03-09
Mesothelioma News - Asbestos Insurance Litigation ConferenceWiredPRNews.com (press release)Philadelphia (Mesothelioma Cancer News) – The chairs for the “Asbestos Insurance Litigation Conference” in Philadelphia have been announced. ...and more »

Mesothelioma Widow Wins Settlement Against Cigarette Filter Maker - Asbestos.Net News

2010-03-09
Mesothelioma Widow Wins Settlement Against Cigarette Filter MakerAsbestos.Net NewsThe widow of a longtime factory worker who died from mesothelioma, the cancer caused by asbestos, has finally been vindicated by a court of law. ...

Personalized Mesothelioma Vaccine Tested in Humans Dendritic cell-based ... - ModernMedicine

2010-03-09
ModernMedicinePersonalized Mesothelioma Vaccine Tested in Humans Dendritic cell-based ...ModernMedicineTUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- A personalized vaccine for mesothelioma derived from the patients own dendritic cells (DCs), and antigens from their ...

New Research Could Help Provide Answers To Mesothelioma, England (Medical News Today)

2010-03-09
The British Lung Foundation is working with the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund to support new research which could lead to better treatments for mesothelioma, an incurable asbestos-related cancer that affects the tissues lining the outside of the lung and the chest wall (pleura). Following a competitive grant application process, Dr Stefan Marciniak at the UniversityofCambridge was ...

New Research May Help Predict Post-Surgery Survival Rate For Mesothelioma Patients (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

2010-03-09
New York attorney Joseph W. Belluck, who handles mesothelioma cases, says study may give patients and their families a more accurate prognosis of the disease and how post-surgical patients will likely respond.

Spate of class-action lawsuits casts light on system (The Springfield News-Leader)

2010-03-10
Class-action lawsuits have been in the news lately, but while commercials seeking mesothelioma patients or birth defects are all over TV, such lawsuits are relatively rare locally.

New anti-tumour vaccine for mesothelioma shows promising results (News-Medical-Net)

2010-03-05
A vaccine against mesothelioma, a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos, has shown early promise in its first clinical trial.

Possible Vaccine For Mesothelioma Proven Safe (Medical News Today)

2010-03-05
Researchers have demonstrated the safety of a potential vaccine against mesothelioma, a rare cancer associated primarily with asbestos exposure. The vaccine, which infuses uses a patient's own dendritic cells (DC) with antigen from the patient's tumor, was able to induce a T-cell response against mesothelioma tumors. "[This] is the first human study on DC-based immunotherapy in patients with ...