# pleural mesothelioma stages

Treatments for mesothelioma » Treatments for mesothelioma include surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Learn about treatment plans and options for mesothelioma. Cancer.ca

Blood cell DNA methylation biomarkers in preclinical malignant pleural mesothelioma: The EPIC prospective cohort » What's new? Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), though rare, is an aggressive cancer chiefly caused by exposure to asbestos. Here, the authors describe a distinctive DNA methylation profile that ca… Onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Advances in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma » Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare cancer originated from pleural mesothelial cells. MPM has been associated with long-term exposure to asbestos. The prognosis of MPM is poor due to the difficulty of making diagnosis in the early stage, the… Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Malignant pleural mesothelioma: predictors and staging » Malignant pleural mesothelioma remains a rapidly fatal cancer with few effective therapies. Unusual anatomic features complicate determination of stage and prognosis for individual patients. Validation of staging criteria has been difficult given the… Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Advances in the Treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma » Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a neoplasm that is commonly fatal and for which there are no widely accepted curative approaches. Mesothelioma is unresponsive to most chemotherapy and radiotherapy regimens, and it typically recurs even after the most aggressive attempts at surgical resection. Multimodality approaches have been of some benefit in prolonging survival of very highly selected subgroups of patients, but they have had a relatively small impact on the majority of the patients diagnosed with this disease. Journal.chestnet.org