Britain is facing an avalanche of asbestos-related deaths. For decades, the official policy has been to leave asbestos where ...

He was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma in August 2023 following a biopsy and treatment. He was admitted to hospital in July 2024 after a sudden decline. He was discharged a few days later ...

ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO ...

A lung biopsy involves the removal of tissue or growths from the lungs. A doctor will use special devices, such as a fine needle, to remove the sample. A lung biopsy can help diagnose lung ...

If imaging tests show a mass in the lung area, fluid buildup in the lungs (pleural effusions), or other potential signs of pleural mesothelioma, a tissue biopsy will be performed to make a proper ...

Following a negative biopsy result, positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography ... Histopathological examination of the sections confirmed the diagnosis of pericardial epithelioid ...

Liquid biopsy is one of them. A traditional biopsy usually involves taking a tiny tissue sample from the body to diagnose a disease and to understand the extent of its progression. But liquid ...

Here, we present an approach called Integral-Omics, which enables sequential extraction of metabolites, lipids, genomic DNA, total RNA, proteins, and phosphopeptides from a single biopsy-level tissue ...

Finding cancer cells with a biopsy is the only definitive way doctors can confirm a diagnosis. Even a biopsy can be tricky, because mesothelioma cells can look like other types of cancer cells. For ...

Asbestos mining on an industrial scale started at the end of the 1800s, with the development of mesothelioma in exposed miners first reported 50 years later (Wagner et al., 1960). The use of asbestos ...