Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The average health care cost per patient in the indwelling pleural catheter (IPC) group was $40,179 vs. $46,640 ...

Malignant mesothelioma is a rare tumor with an annual incidence in the United States of approximately 2500 cases per year. 1 Pleural malignant mesotheliomas are 10–30-fold more common than their ...

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...

Purpose The etiology, diagnosis, staging, and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) are reviewed, with an emphasis on clinical trials of newer approaches to first-line, second-line, and ...

A 70-year-old female with diabetes, hypertension, and a 20 pack-year smoking history presented with new onset cough. She had pleuritic chest pain with dyspnea on exertion, without any fever or ...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a short history of loss of weight and appetite, constipation, right-sided abdominal pain, unsteady gait and headache. Physical examination revealed a soft nontender ...

Dublin, Aug. 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) - Epidemiology Forecast to 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The report delivers an ...

Pleural effusion, also called “water on the lungs,” is extra fluid buildup between thin membranes that line your lungs and chest wall. These membranes (pleura) normally contain a few teaspoons of ...

There are several types of malignant mesothelioma. Doctors know which type you have based on where the cells are located and how they're arranged. Malignant pleural mesothelioma. Cancer cells are ...

American Society of Clinical Oncology Provisional Clinical Opinion: Testing for KRAS Gene Mutations in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma to Predict Response to Anti–Epidermal Growth Factor ...