Copyright 2012 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/asbestos/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241169.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/241169.phpWhat would you do if you found out that the roads you drive on could cause cancer? This is the reality that residents face in Dunn County, North Dakota. For roughly 30 years, gravel containing the potentially carcinogenic mineral erionite was spread on nearly 500 kilometers of roads, playgrounds, parking lots, and even flower beds throughout Dunn County...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238263.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/238263.php Asbestos exposure is known to cause : Mesothelioma Lung cancer Asbestosis Statistics show it is particularly prevalent amongst construction workers and electricians due to their constant contact with construction materials and dust, some of which is likely to include asbestos, no matter how careful they are...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140859.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140859.phpMesothelioma, more precisely known as malignant mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the mesothelial cells, most commonly those in the lining that covers the lungs (pleura). Mesothelial cells exist in the lining (membrane) that covers the outer surface of our body organs. The majority of people with mesothelioma have been exposed to asbestos at some time during their life...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237717.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237717.phpThe rise in the number of natural disaster means we cannot consider bonded asbestos as safe anymore, cancer experts in Perth said in the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia's Annual Scientific Meeting...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237644.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/237644.phpDespite the widespread use of current antiangiogenic cancer therapies, many tumors escape this blockade, which is designed to shut down growth of new blood vessels that feed tumors and spread cancer cells...Lung Cancer Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237479.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/237479.phpResearchers from Italy and The Netherlands have developed an "electronic nose" that appears to be able to tell if someone has Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) just from sampling their breath. A report on their study is currently in press but an early issue recently appeared online in the journal Lung Cancer...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/235875.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/235875.phpLung cancer patients could receive safer and more efficient treatment through a system being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The scientists have devised a method for giving drugs by inhalation to patients through a nebuliser, rather than the current approach of intravenous delivery...Lung Cancer Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/234604.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/234604.phpIt's been long known that asbestos spells trouble for human cells. Scientists have seen cells stabbed with spiky, long asbestos fibers, and the image is gory: Part of the fiber is protruding from the cell, like a quivering arrow that's found its mark...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233947.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233947.phpAccording to an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia a new study revealed that home renovations in Australia are causing an alarming number of asbestos-related disease in men and women. The study discovered that home renovation in Western Australia was responsible for 35.7 per cent of female mesothelioma cases and 8.4 per cent male cases between 2005 and 2008...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233481.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/233481.phpScientists have found that individuals who carry a mutation in a gene called BAP1 are susceptible to developing two forms of cancer mesothelioma, and melanoma of the eye. Additionally, when these individuals are exposed to asbestos or similar mineral fibers, their risk of developing mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer of the lining of the chest and abdomen, may be markedly increased...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233508.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/233508.phpPeople with gene mutation BAP1 have a higher risk of developing mesothelioma and melanoma of the eye, researchers have reported in Nature Genetics. The authors added that individuals with the BAP1 mutation who are exposed to asbestos have a considerably higher chance of developing mesothelioma than those without the mutation...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231754.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/231754.phpAs school buses drive down the gravel roads in Dunn County, North Dakota, they stir up more than dirt. The clouds of dust left in their wake contain such high levels of the mineral erionite that those who breathe in the air every day are at an increased risk of developing mesothelioma, a type of cancer of the membranes around the lungs, new research shows...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/230221.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/230221.phpThe Joint Union Asbestos Campaign (JUAC) is today calling on the government to boost safety standards, by placing a requirement on local authorities to give parents and school workers an annual report of the asbestos risk in schools...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/229516.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/229516.phpThe UH Cancer Center has received a $3.58 million gift from an anonymous donor to support the mesothelioma research of Dr. Michele Carbone, director of the UH Cancer Center. Carbone and colleagues, who include Drs. Haining Yang and Giovanni Gaudino, have made a series of recent scientific breakthroughs that will lead to new ways to prevent and treat the disease...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228625.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228625.phpMice inhabiting a northern town of Israel known for its high concentration of asbestos-contaminated dust, have a higher level of genetic somatic mutations, compared with other regions where asbestos pollution levels are lower. This has been shown in a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo and Dr. Uri Shanas of the University of Haifa's Department of Biology in Oranim...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 15 Jun 2011 05:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228605.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228605.phpPhysicians at the University of Pennsylvania may have found a way to increase the lifespan of mesothelioma patients. These findings came from a study published in the June 2011 issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and were largely unexpected given that the original purpose of the study was to see if intraoperative photodynamic therapy (PDT) in conjunction with surgery had any effect...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 15 Jun 2011 04:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228584.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228584.phpTiny fibres used to strengthen items such as bike frames and hockey sticks could pose risks to workers who make them. Certain types of carbon nanotubes - cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair - could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University research shows...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228423.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228423.phpTiny fibres used to strengthen everyday products such as bicycle frames and hockey sticks could pose health hazards to those involved in their manufacture. Certain types of carbon nanotubes - cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair - could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University of Edinburgh researchers have found...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228165.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/228165.phpAn alarming new article in Respirology issues a serious warning of massive rises in deaths from asbestos-related lung diseases in Asia. Dr Ken Takahashi, Acting Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health, and his team put together important data on asbestos use in 47 Asian countries in this landmark article...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/227304.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/227304.phpPleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) (or en bloc removal of the lung and surrounding tissue) with PDT, indicates new research from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the U...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 26 May 2011 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/226566.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/226566.phpInternational mesothelioma experts gathered at the 1st International Symposium on Lung-Sparing Therapies for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) on Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Santa Monica, CA. A wide range of medical specialists reviewed information from a variety of U.S. centers as well as from the recently concluded Mesothelioma And Radical Surgery (MARS) trial from the U.K...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 18 May 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/225683.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/225683.phpCleaning up storm-damaged buildings can create serious health and environmental hazards, the Alabama Department of Public Health cautions. Buildings that have been damaged can produce a range of materials that may be hazardous including asbestos, home or industrial cleaning products, insulation, old lead paint and other materials that may contain lead...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 16 May 2011 03:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/225419.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/225419.phpThe Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) issued the following statement today from ADAO President/CEO and Co-Founder Linda Reinstein: "ADAO shares the horror of other asbestos victims groups, doctors, engineers, scientists, labour leaders, and public health organizations at the Zimbabwean government's announcement to craft a revival plan for the Shabanie and Mashaba asbestos mines...Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 09 May 2011 08:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/224640.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/224640.phpThe UCLA Mesothelioma Research Program is sponsoring the 1st International Symposium on Lung-Sparing Therapies for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) at the Sheraton Hotel in Santa Monica, California. This unique one-day symposium will take place on Saturday, May 21st from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The course will be led by Dr...Conferences Wed, 04 May 2011 02:00:00 PSThttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/224156.phphttp://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/224156.phpResearchers at last month's AACR conference in Orlando demonstrated that they are intensifying their efforts to identify and validate various types of biomarkers that are detectable in readily accessible bodily fluids such as blood and urine, reports Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN)...Asbestos / Mesothelioma