Mesothelioma Science News
San Pedro, CA - September 27, 2007
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Pleural biopsy using thoracoscopy is less efficient at
determining whether the mesothelioma subtype is epithelial
or biphasic.
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Coast
Guard shipyard workers show higher rates of cancer,
mesothelioma.
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A growth factor secreted by
stem cells increases the viability of malignant mesothelioma
cells, and research on a particular feedback pathway may
help explain how this growth factor affects mesothelioma and
other tumors.
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Mesothelioma deaths in Spain will increase at least until
2016, and data do not allow a prediction of the year
mortality will start decreasing.
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