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Research cooperation between two countries that don’t communicate politically – the United States (US) and Cuba – allows a strange relationship to make strides against cancer. Now a Cuban lung cancer vaccine is in US clinical trials. How did this strange relationship begin? After Fidel Castro took over as president of Cuba, causing great harm …
A Cuban lung cancer vaccine will have a trial in New York at the Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo. The trial will begin in approximately 30 days with 60 to 90 lung cancer patients. The drug being tested, Cimavax, has already gone through testing in Cuba, Colombia, and Paraguay. This drug is not new …
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive cancer, primarily brought on by asbestos exposure. Recent studies by Pavel A Levin and Jonathan E Dowell at the Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, have revealed adding bevacizumab to the combination of cisplatin and pemetrexed gives hope to selected mesothelioma victims by potentially extending …
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death and is responsible for about 1 out of 4 cancer deaths for both men and wormen. Tragically, according to the American Cancer Society, “more people die from lung cancer than from colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.” Causes of lung cancer For decades it has been …
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP,) comprising 21 Pacific island and five metropolitan areas, voted to “restrict the importation, re-use and re-sale of products and wastes containing asbestos in Pacific island countries.” The impetus for this move was the Rotterdam Convention’s failure in past years to list chrysotile asbestos on Annex III …
