First drug for rare cancer - Updates - Alimta - Brief Article
FDA Consumer - May 1, 2004
Cancer of the mesothelium--a membrane that covers and protects most of the body's internal organs--is usually associated with a history of asbestos exposure and affects the lining of the chest. About 2,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. By the time symptoms appear, th... (Read More)
Asbestos-induced peritoneal mesothelioma in a construction worker - Grand Rounds
Environmental Health Perspectives - April 1, 2004, by Rodolfo Fonte,
Salvatore Gambettino,
Mario Melazzini,
Mario Scelsi,
Claudio Zanon,
Stefano M. Candura
Occupational and environmental asbestos exposure continues to represent a public health problem, despite increasingly restrictive laws adopted by most industrialized countries. Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive asbestos-related malignancy. We present the ca... (Read More)
Asbestos and the pleura : a review - reviews
Chest - March 1, 2004, by David W. Cugell,
David W. Kamp
Key words: asbestos: asbestos production; DNA damage; mesothelioma; plaque: pleura; pleural calcification; pleural fibrosis; public policy; reactive nitrogen species; reactive oxygen species; rounded atelectasis; simian virus 40
Abbreviations: EPA = Environmental Protec... (Read More)
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is a promising treatment for solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura - minimally invasive techniques
Chest - March 1, 2004, by Makoto Takahama,
Keiji Kushibe,
Takeshi Kawaguchi,
Michitaka Kimura,
Shigeki Taniguchi
Study objectives: Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura (SFTPs) are slow-growing neoplasms. Approximately 800 cases have been reported in the literature to date. The aim of this study was to address our experience with the management of SFTPs and to evaluate the advantage... (Read More)
Baron & Budd, P.C., Announces $5.2 Million Asbestos Verdict Against Insulation Manufacturer in El Paso
PR Newswire - February 24, 2004
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dallas law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., has announced a $5.2 million jury verdict delivered today on behalf of a local tradesman who died less than a year after discovering he had contracted a fatal disease caused by his exposur... (Read More)
Changing patterns in asbestos-induced lung disease - occupational and environmental lung disease
Chest - February 1, 2004, by Jill Ohar,
David A. Sterling,
Eugene Bleecker,
James Donohue
Study objectives: To determine patterns in asbestos-induced lung diseases found in older, less exposed workers.
Design: Review of a database evaluating lung function, smoking status, form of asbestos-induced lung disease, and radiograph abnormalities.
Setting: Outpati... (Read More)
Evaluation of pleural disease with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging - clinical investigations
Chest - February 1, 2004, by Bernard Duysinx,
Delphine Nguyen,
Renaud Louis,
Didier Cataldo,
Tarik Belhocine,
Pierre Bartsch,
Thierry Bury
Study objectives: To study the ability of positron emission tomography (PET) using 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) to distinguish between benign and malignant disease in exudative pleural effusions and pleural thickening.
Design: Prospective study of 98 consecutive patients... (Read More)
Impact of respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function on quality of life of long-term survivors of non-small cell lung cancer - clinical investigations
Chest - February 1, 2004, by Linda Sarna,
Lorraine Evangelista,
Donald Tashkin,
Geraldine Padilla,
Carmack Holmes,
Mary Lynn Brecht,
Fred Grannis
Purpose: To describe respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function among long-term survivors of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and their relationship to quality of life (QOL).
Methods: Cross-sectional survey of disease-free, 5-year minimum survivors of NSCLC (n = 142... (Read More)
Clinical implications of appearance of pleural fluid at thoracentesis - clinical investigations
Chest - January 1, 2004, by Victoria Villena,
Angel Lopez-Encuentra,
Ricardo Garcia-Lujan,
Jose Echave-Sustaeta,
Carlos Jose Alvarez Martinez
Study objectives: The aims of this study were to describe the different appearances of pleural fluid during thoracentess and their frequency in relation to diagnosis, and to evaluate the causes and clinical implications of bloody pleural effusions.
Setting: Tertiary car... (Read More)
Photodynamic therapy in dermatology: history and horizons - Articles
Journal of Drugs in Dermatology - January 1, 2004, by Amy Forman Taub
Abstract
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses a photosensitizer, light, and molecular oxygen to selectively kill cells. When localized in the target tissue, the photosensitizer is activated by light to produce oxygen intermediates that destroy target tissue cells. The easy a... (Read More)
Top ten list in pleural disease - literature review
Chest - December 1, 2003, by Michael H. Baumann
Key words: chest tube; guideline; pleura; pneumothorax; thoracoscopy
Abbreviations: ACCP = American College of Chest Physicians; BTS = British Thoracic Society; DNase = deoxyribonuclease; PSP = primary spontaneous pneumothorax
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Zevon's The Wind Amazing Testament To Soul's Honesty - TheFrontPage
New York Observer, The - August 18, 2003
Byline: Frank DiGiacomo
In 1931, George Orwell published "A Hanging," his eyewitness account of an execution at a prison in Burma. Reading the story is like getting a series of stiff jabs to the head, and the first one comes as the guards lead the doomed man from his ce... (Read More)
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