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Mesothelioma Guide for Nursing & Medical Students

Mesothelioma presents unique challenges for health care providers. To best treat mesothelioma patients, nursing and medical students should understand all aspects of this aggressive cancer.

Sean Marchese, MS, RN

11/15/2024

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Exercise During Mesothelioma Treatment

Exercise for mesothelioma benefits nearly all patients. Adding safe exercises to your daily routine can help manage cancer symptoms and treatment side effects.

Sean Marchese, MS, RN

08/09/2024

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Karen Selby, Patient Advocate at The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com

Meet Your Patient Advocates: The People Behind Our Patient Support

Our Patient Advocates at The Mesothelioma Center work seven days a week to help patients and their families through every aspect of a mesothelioma diagnosis. The team offers resources, doctor recommendations, help with insurance or Medicare and much more, all free of charge.

Travis Rodgers

09/11/2024

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State of Mesothelioma: 2023

Mesothelioma statistics can take years to research, time many patients don’t have. In this exclusive survey, The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com asked more than…

Sean Marchese, MS, RN

11/06/2024

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The Future of Cancer Treatment: Using Technology to Find a Cure

Cancer remains the illness most feared in the United States. Most Americans say cancer technology advancements are key to lowering incidence rates, improving life…

Sean Marchese, MS, RN

12/09/2024

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45% of People Worry About Toxic Makeup — Should You?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is responsible for making sure that food, drugs and other consumer products — including cosmetics — are safe.

Karen Selby, RN

08/08/2024

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20 Years Later: The Lingering Health Effects of 9/11

Two decades after foreign terrorists attacked Americans on U.S. soil, the impact of Sept. 11, 2001, is still being felt today. Hundreds of thousands…

Karen Selby, RN

08/06/2024

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High Cost of Cancer Treatment

Life-saving surgeries and the latest therapies are helping extend the lives of cancer patients — but only those who can afford them.

Karen Selby, RN

11/27/2024

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Deadliest, Most Common Cancers Get the Least Attention in U.S.

The cancers that kill most Americans each year are not the ones capturing the nation’s attention. An independent survey of 1,000 Americans proves it.

Karen Selby, RN

12/20/2023

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The Faces of Asbestos Exposure

Asbestos kills nearly 40,000 Americans each year from malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer and other related diseases. The U.S. is the only developed country that has not fully banned the carcinogen.

Karen Selby, RN

03/01/2023

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Immunotherapy – The Future of Mesothelioma Treatment?

Dr. David Sugarbaker was known as “Mr. Mesothelioma” for a reason: He dedicated his life to treating this rare cancer. Through his research and innovation, Sugarbaker gave hope to patients and families who once had none.

Matt Mauney

04/25/2024

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Remembering Dr. David Sugarbaker

Dr. David Sugarbaker was was regarded as the country’s foremost authority on pleural mesothelioma. Although he died in 2018, his legacy continues to give patients and families hope.

Karen Selby, RN

08/19/2024

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The Hidden Dangers of Talc

Talc companies have covered up the dangerous health effects of asbestos-contaminated talc and how it leads to cancers such as mesothelioma. Many of these companies, including Johnson & Johnson, are now facing numerous asbestos talcum powder lawsuits.

Michelle Whitmer

12/09/2024

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The Sugarbaker Family Tree

For the last 30 years, the Sugarbaker name has been synonymous with advancing the treatment of malignant mesothelioma cancer, permanently etching it into past breakthroughs and future innovations.

Tim Povtak

08/19/2024

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Women: The New Faces of Mesothelioma

Historically, mesothelioma is a cancer that mostly affects older men who were exposed to asbestos while serving in the military or working certain blue-collar jobs. But the gender gap is closing as mesothelioma incidence rates among women are on the rise. Women now comprise nearly one-fourth of all cases.

Matt Mauney

12/09/2024

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Asbestos Cover-Up

Court documents provide irrefutable proof the asbestos industry leveraged its power and influence to keep workers and the public in the dark about the hazards of asbestos. Workers were not warned about the carcinogen, and their families paid for the industry’s negligence. Dozens of companies are implicated in the decades-long cover-up.

Michelle Whitmer

03/25/2024

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How Asbestos Kills America’s Veterans

The U.S. government never warned servicemen who fought for America about the deadly long-term effects of asbestos exposure in the military. Now, a broken VA health care system fails them a second time by abandoning veterans dying of mesothelioma.

Tim Povtak

04/25/2023

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