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1. New Research Could Help Provide Answers To Mesothelioma, England (Medical News Today)
   Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:31:57 GMT
   The British Lung Foundation is working with the June Hancock Mesothelioma Research Fund to support new research which could lead to better treatments for mesothelioma, an incurable asbestos-related cancer that affects the tissues lining the outside of the lung and the chest wall (pleura). Following a competitive grant application process, Dr Stefan Marciniak at the UniversityofCambridge was ...
   
2. New Research May Help Predict Post-Surgery Survival Rate For Mesothelioma Patients (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
   Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:01:00 GMT
   New York attorney Joseph W. Belluck, who handles mesothelioma cases, says study may give patients and their families a more accurate prognosis of the disease and how post-surgical patients will likely respond.
   
3. Spate of class-action lawsuits casts light on system (The Springfield News-Leader)
   Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:38 GMT
   Class-action lawsuits have been in the news lately, but while commercials seeking mesothelioma patients or birth defects are all over TV, such lawsuits are relatively rare locally.
   
4. New anti-tumour vaccine for mesothelioma shows promising results (News-Medical-Net)
   Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:55:12 GMT
   A vaccine against mesothelioma, a cancer associated with exposure to asbestos, has shown early promise in its first clinical trial.
   
5. Possible Vaccine For Mesothelioma Proven Safe (Medical News Today)
   Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:46:44 GMT
   Researchers have demonstrated the safety of a potential vaccine against mesothelioma, a rare cancer associated primarily with asbestos exposure. The vaccine, which infuses uses a patient's own dendritic cells (DC) with antigen from the patient's tumor, was able to induce a T-cell response against mesothelioma tumors. "[This] is the first human study on DC-based immunotherapy in patients with ...