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October 24th 2024
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October 16th 2024
Study Results Fail to Support Routine Use of Prophylactic Irradiation in Mesothelioma
June 19th 2019Routine use of prophylactic radiotherapy in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma is unnecessary following a chest wall procedure, according to multicenter, open-label, phase 3, randomized controlled trial findings published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
CAR Therapy for Solid Tumors Draws Attention at Annual Cancer Conference
June 18th 2019Results from a clinical trial in people with mesothelioma indicate that an experimental chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy is safe and may provide benefit to patients, especially in combination with other immunotherapies.
Patients with Mesothelioma See No Survival Benefit With Defactinib Maintenance Therapy
June 18th 2019Maintenance therapy with defactinib failed to improve survival following front-line chemotherapy in patients with merlin-low malignant pleural mesothelioma, according to results from the phase 2 COMMAND trial.
FDA Approves First Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Therapy in Over 15 Years
May 24th 2019The Food and Drug Administration has approved the NovoTTF-100L System in combination with pemetrexed and platinum-based chemotherapy for the front-line treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic malignant pleural mesothelioma.