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The Environmental Protection Agency’s draft risk evaluation for asbestos will undergo a “peer review” by the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals. This meeting, which is a virtual event slated for June 8-11, could inspire the EPA to take the risks of asbestos more seriously. Asbestos is a...
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Mesothelioma is frequently linked to working in construction and insulation trades. These occupations, along with the United States military, relied for decades on asbestos. Did...
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For most of the 20th century, the United States military relied on asbestos for constructing equipment and buildings. The result was thousands of veterans developing mesothelioma...
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Asbestos exposure and New York City go hand in hand, mainly due to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The World Trade Centers contained the cancer-causing mineral, and the...
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On May 23, 2019, a press release from the company Novocure made history. It announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the NovoTTF-100L...
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Imagine it’s seven years from now. Or maybe it’s 10 or 20 years into the future. A person is told difficult-to-hear news from their doctor: They have mesothelioma, a rare and...
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Mesothelioma takes between 20 and 50 years to develop. Due to this long latency period, the asbestos-caused cancer affects middle-aged and elderly people most often. If a patient...
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Immunotherapy drugs are commonplace in mesothelioma clinical trials. However, in many cases, these drugs can’t fight cancer alone. A new Phase 2 pleural mesothelioma clinical...
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The residents of Libby, Montana, woke up each day for decades facing an environmental risk. The city was home to a vermiculite mine, which operated for much of the 20th century,...
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You’re a mesothelioma patient. You just received your diagnosis. Now you’re trying to understand the disease you have. How much do you know about it? Can you recite the names...
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May 23, 2019, is one of the most noteworthy dates in the history of mesothelioma. On that date, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new treatment for pleural...
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