While this aggressive cancer is very difficult to diagnose and even harder to treat, the causes of mesotheliomaare well known. In the United States, this dreadful disease is diagnosed in two to three thousand people every year! Not shocking enough? Of those diagnosed with mesothelioma, three quarters of them got it from inhaling or swallowing particles of asbestos.
New Mesothelioma Treatment Options Available
You will find more than one new mesothelioma treatment being considered for those with the disease. The mesomark blood test was approved by the FDA in 2007. What it does is to monitor a patient's responses to treatment for bi-phasic and epithelial mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma cells release a particular protein into the blood (this is called a biomarker).
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