Monthly Archives: March 2011

Mark your calendars: the first of April is National Asbestos Awareness Week and Global Asbestos Awareness Week, a time to broaden understanding of the terrible toll that the cancer-causing mineral fiber exacts in the United…

More than 20 million people in the United States are at risk of developing malignant mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure, according to researchers at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center. In the March issue of…

Many asbestos products remain in use in New York and the United States, and new products containing asbestos such as roofing materials continue to be imported and manufactured in the U.S. In a new report…

An overabundance of the protein mesothelin in a patient’s blood may be a telltale sign of a malignant tumor. Mesothelin is an antibody that is normally produced by cells lining the chest cavity, the abdominal…

Researchers are still working to improve the medications used to treat malignant pleural mesothelioma, a stubbornly aggressive respiratory cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. One of the chemotherapy drugs that doctors often prescribe patients to…