The Mesothelioma Guide Blog

Mesothelioma is a unique type of cancer. Tumors spread quickly and as little specks rather than one large, ever-growing mass. This creates challenges for treatment, particularly...

A well-known asbestos screening clinic in Libby, MT – one of the hotbeds of asbestos mining and exposure in the United States – closed last week. The Center for...

Wickii Vigneswaran, MD, is part of the treatment team at the James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, FL. Dr. Vigneswaran is an internationally recognized thoracic surgeon and a...

Pleural mesothelioma is an aggressive type of cancer that can quickly spread to the lungs. The disease is also one of the rarest types of cancer, and most doctors have never...

The controversy regarding asbestos exposure and mesothelioma risks for Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder has been ongoing for many years. Even in 2025, though, after so many...

The Eaton wildfires in Altadena, California, near Los Angeles, have left a lingering threat in their wake: asbestos exposure, the only cause of a rare and deadly form of cancer...

An audit reveals that the New York Department of Education has failed to inspect a large majority of New York City public schools for asbestos, a cancer-causing toxin. This latest...

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. During the 21st century, the average number of mesothelioma cases in the U.S. each year was 2,500-3,000. Scientists...

A jury in Florida awarded a woman with mesothelioma a sizable verdict in a case of talc and secondhand asbestos exposure. The jury ruled for $18 million in the favor of a woman...

The talc mining and processing company Barretts Minerals is proceeding with a plan to create an asbestos trust fund to pay cancer victims who used the company’s products. The...