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 ...

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 ...

Lung is the leading cancer site in males, comprising 17% of the total new cancer cases and 23% of the total cancer deaths. Cancer survival tends to be poorer in developing countries, most likely ...

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare but fatal tumour. Although most MPM patients show pleural effusion at even the early stage, it is hard to diagnose as MPM at the early stage because a ...

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A phase I/II, open label trial of Lewis Y specific monoclonal antibody IGN311 to evaluate safety and efficacy in patients with malignant effusion This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2006 ASCO ...

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 ...

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 ...

The role of surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma encompasses the need for rapid diagnosis, preoperative staging and surgical resection, and also the need for a greater biological understanding ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clover Biopharmaceuticals, a global clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel and transformative biologic therapies, today announced that the ...

Pleural Dynamics today announced positive results from a prospective, multicenter study evaluating its ACES device.

Worldwide Trends in the Epidemiologic Features of Malignant Mesothelioma. In addition to its substantial personal and health care costs, malignant mesothelioma is associated with compensation costs ...