A Role for PET/CT in response assessment of malignant pleural mesothelioma

P Sandach, R Seifert, WP Fendler, H Hautzel… - Seminars in Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer, whose incidence, however, is
increasing and will presumably continue to rise in the coming years. Key features of this …

Consensus statement on proton therapy in mesothelioma

J Zeng, SN Badiyan, YI Garces, T Wong… - Practical radiation …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Radiation therapy for mesothelioma remains challenging, as normal tissue toxicity
limits the amount of radiation that can be safely delivered to the pleural surfaces, especially …

Improving the effect of cancer cells irradiation with X-rays and high-energy protons using bimetallic palladium-platinum nanoparticles with various nanostructures

B Klebowski, M Stec, J Depciuch, A Panek… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Radiation-based anticancer therapies are often ineffective as cancer cells
may acquire radioresistance. Moreover, such therapies can cause unwanted side effects …

Impact of asbestos on public health: a retrospective study on a series of subjects with occupational and non-occupational exposure to asbestos during the activity of …

SD Visonà, S Villani, F Manzoni… - Journal of public …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The goal of this study is to understand more about the role of asbestos in causing human
diseases, first of all mesothelioma, by investigating a large series of deaths due to asbestos …

A novel prospective study assessing the combination of photodynamic therapy and proton radiation therapy: safety and outcomes when treating malignant pleural …

SR Rice, YR Li, TM Busch, MM Kim… - Photochemistry and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Malignant pleural mesothelioma remains difficult to treat, with high failure rates despite
optimal therapy. We present a novel prospective trial combining proton therapy (PT) and …

Genomic analysis of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in esophageal adenocarcinoma

F Izadi, BP Sharpe, SP Breininger, M Secrier, J Gibson… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is a cancer with very poor survival
outcomes. Patients are treated with pre-operative chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy …

The ecology of medical care in Norway: wide use of general practitioners may not necessarily keep patients out of hospitals

AH Hansen, PA Halvorsen… - Journal of public health …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Our aim was to investigate the pattern of self reported symptoms and utilisation
of health care services in Norway. Design and Methods With data from the cross-sectional …

Modeling epidermal growth factor inhibitor‐mediated enhancement of photodynamic therapy efficacy using 3D mesothelioma cell culture

G Cramer, M Shin, S Hagan, SI Katz… - Photochemistry and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We have demonstrated that lung‐sparing surgery with intraoperative photodynamic therapy
(PDT) achieves remarkably extended survival for patients with malignant pleural …

Assessment protocol of mesothelioma and relevance of SEM-EDS analysis through a case studies of legal medicine of Brescia (Italy)

F Maghin, A Antonietti, N Cerri, LM Lancini… - Legal Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction This study evaluates the assessment protocol that allows the correlation
between the development of mesothelioma to a specific exposure, with particular focus on …

[HTML][HTML] Surgical staging and resection of malignant pleural mesothelioma

LB Brown, F Corl, SH Blackmon - Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mesothelioma is a malignancy of mesothelial cells, which line the pleura, peritoneum,
pericardium, and tunica vaginalis. Malignancy of the pleural lining is most commonly …