The Mesothelioma Guide Blog

Serving in the military aboard a Navy ship carries an abundance of tasks and stressors. So it’s fair that asbestos was probably not on the minds of Navy officers and other...

Mesothelioma is widely viewed as a disease of the elderly. The average age of people diagnosed is in the 60s, and few of them are younger than 40. That’s what makes a recent...

Dr. Marcelo DaSilva recalled a story about one of his first mesothelioma patients at AdventHealth in Orlando, Florida. This victim of mesothelioma, from Maryland, was rejected at...

The wheels of progress sometimes turn too slowly for our liking. Sometimes, they appear to not be turning at all. Efforts to bring corporate injustice, maliciousness and greed to...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s draft risk evaluation for asbestos will undergo a “peer review” by the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals. This meeting, which is...

Immunotherapy likely will be a standard treatment for mesothelioma in the future. The lingering question is how long we have to wait for the first drug to receive FDA...

Mesothelioma, like many types of cancer, does not have a universal cure. There is no singular treatment that kills all tumors or completely removes the disease from the body. We...

Update: This post was updated May 17, 2022, with data from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center about the phase 2 trial for the mesothelioma gene therapy. The ultimate goal of...

For one week each year, nurses in the United States are recognized for their dedication to helping others. This event is called National Nurses Week, which is May 6-12 this...

More than one-third of mesothelioma patients are veterans of the United States military. They are widely considered the group most affected by this disease — because they were...