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When a patient is diagnosed with mesothelioma, a disease stage is also assigned. The stage determines the treatment plan for the patient. These standards for stage evaluation have been updated through a project led by Dr. Valerie Rusch, renowned mesothelioma specialist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. This re-categorization will lead to …
A recent study aimed at determining the incidence of contracting specific second primary cancers (SPCs) after a diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma (MM) and, in reverse, developing MM after acquiring another SPC. The most discovered cancer either before or after mesothelioma was kidney cancer. These findings included both pleural and peritoneal MMs. While the incidence of …
Too often, cancer patients and their families must choose between traditional hospice limited to palliative care and active treatment of their disease. Fortunately, the Veterans Health Administration (VA) has taken a lead in offering both hospice/palliative care and cancer therapy concurrently in the United States (US). This is a major step in what has been …
The Four Corners Power Plant is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation near the borders of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah in the town of Fruitland, New Mexico. Units 1, 2, and 3 coal boilers were constructed beginning in 1963 with other units beginning operation in 1969. In the 1960s, asbestos was an integral …
