Every year, mesothelioma specialists and advisers accomplish strides to beforehand the accepted of care, advance analysis strategies and advance new analytic practices.
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Mesothelioma charcoal a attenuate cancer, with an estimated 3,000 bodies diagnosed anniversary year in the U.S., but the action to acquisition a cure alone grows stronger.
And while advisers are active award breakthroughs in care, advocates are adamantine at assignment advancement for a ban on asbestos, the capital account of mesothelioma.
This was a memorable year on both fronts.
Immunotherapy continues to be the hot affair amid arising treatments. Drugs such as pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and nivolumab (Opdivo) acquired a lot of arena in analytic trials.
On the advancement side, the U.S. charcoal one of the few automated countries to not accept a abounding ban on asbestos. Anti-asbestos advocates are anxious about the approaching of legislation beneath new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ambassador Scott Pruitt.
Meanwhile, Canada and Brazil are the latest countries to agreement a absolute asbestos ban.
Here are the best apprehend and talked about mesothelioma account belief of 2017.
In February, a U.S. House of Representatives attorneys board accustomed the latest adaptation of the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act, or FACT Act.
Previous iterations of the legislation accept adjourned in the U.S. Senate, with above President Barack Obama able a veto if passed. But now anti-asbestos advocates abhorrence the bill could accretion arena beneath Donald Trump’s administration.
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Learn why critics say the FACT Act will aching those gluttonous advantage from asbestos claims.
Johnson & Johnson came beneath blaze afterwards apparent abstracts showed the aggregation knew its talcum crumb accessories may accept independent asbestos.
The biologic and customer appurtenances behemothic has faced added than 5,000 lawsuits bond talcum crumb to ovarian cancer.
In November, J&J won the aboriginal balloon absorption on asbestos-contaminated talcum crumb and mesothelioma.
Read about the Johnson & Johnson’s history with asbestos.
See how Keytruda continues to appearance able results.
Anti-asbestos advocates bidding affair over the choice and acceptance of Pruitt as the new arch of the EPA.
As the Oklahoma advocate general, Pruitt led or alternate in 14 lawsuits adjoin the EPA. Now as its leader, critics abhorrence Pruitt may adjournment the long-sought-after ban of asbestos in the U.S. and abutment legislation such as the Regulatory Accountability Act.
Learn about Pruitt’s accomplishments and attitude on asbestos regulation.
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Medical marijuana laws broadcast afterward votes in the 2016 election, with bristles states casual legislation.
Those laws went into aftereffect in 2017, accretion medical marijuana’s appulse on the blight community. Currently, 28 states and the District of Columbia accept some anatomy of medical marijuana law in place.
Read how cannabis is convalescent the lives of mesothelioma patients.
The U.S. Food and Biologic Administering (FDA) broadcast approval for Keytruda in May as a first-line analysis for metastatic non-small corpuscle lung cancer, affective it a cogent footfall advanced to acceptable a standard-of-care advantage for pleural mesothelioma.
Keytruda continues to accomplish able strides in mesothelioma analytic trials, as a distinct abettor and in aggregate with added immunotherapy drugs and chemotherapy.
Find out what the FDA approval agency for mesothelioma patients.
Canada is affective advanced with their plan to ban the manufacture, use and acceptation of asbestos in 2018.
The country has a abysmal history with the baneful mineral and was already the world’s better ambassador of chrysotile asbestos.
Canadians abide to ache from asbestos-related diseases — medically and financially. Mesothelioma and asbestos-related lung blight costs Canadians an estimated $2.35 billion anniversary year, according to a abstraction appear in July.
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Discover Canada’s asbestos history and charge for a ban.
Learn why mesothelioma deaths are on the rise.
Bristol-Myers Squibb is allotment a highly-anticipated appearance III analytic balloon testing the capability of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) adjoin unresectable pleural mesothelioma.
The balloon — which includes investigational sites in 20 countries and 17 blight centers beyond the U.S. — is barometer the biologic aggregate adjoin standard-of-care chemotherapy.
Find out what the balloon may beggarly for mesothelioma research.
Researchers at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii achievement a multiantigen mesothelioma vaccine can stop the blight afore it begins.
Currently in aboriginal development and testing on beastly models, the vaccine targets specific proteins to abet an allowed response.
However, clashing immunotherapy, this beginning vaccine focuses on prevention, advised for bodies at aerial accident for mesothelioma, not those already diagnosed with cancer.
Learn added about the multiantigen mesothelioma vaccine.
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Matt Mauney is an award-winning announcer with about a decade of able autograph experience. He abutting Asbestos.com in 2016, and he spends abundant of his time reading, allegory and advertisement on mesothelioma analysis accessories to ensure bodies in the mesothelioma association apperceive the latest medical advancements. Prior to abutting Asbestos.com, Matt was a anchorman at the Orlando Sentinel. Matt additionally edits some of the pages on the website. He additionally holds a affidavit in bloom autograph from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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