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Carbon Nanotubes That Look Like Asbestos, Behave Like Asbestos, Could Lead To Asbestos-related Disease
A major study in Nature
Nanotechnology suggests some
forms of carbon nanotubes --
a poster child for the
"nanotechnology revolution"
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Asbestos Contamination: Health Impacts Of One Of The Nation's Largest Environmental Disasters
November 2, 2009 — Over nearly a century, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, Mont., have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, leading to markedly higher rates of lung disease and autoimmune ... > full story -
How Carbon Nanotubes Can Affect Lining Of The Lungs
October 26, 2009 — Carbon nanotubes are being considered for use in everything from sports equipment to medical applications, but a great deal remains unknown about whether these materials cause respiratory or other ... > full story -
New Technique Can Help Diagnose Mesothelioma
August 25, 2009 — A new technique may help clinicians hone in on a diagnosis in patients presenting with a pleural effusion of unknown ... > full story -
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Gene Expression Ratio Test Predicts Outcome In Mesothelioma Patients Treated With Surgery
April 28, 2009 — A four-gene expression ratio test prospectively distinguished mesothelioma patients who had a statistically significant longer overall survival from those who had shorter survival in a ... > full story -
How Asbestos Fibers Trigger Cancer In Human Cells
December 22, 2008 — Scientists are now studying the molecular underpinnings of cancer by probing individual bonds between an asbestos fiber and human cells. Though any clinical application is years away, the researchers ... > full story -
New Clinical Trial For Patients With Asbestos-associated Lung Cancer
June 26, 2008 — The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical ... > full story -
Mouse Model For Mesothelioma Reproduces Human Disease
March 11, 2008 — Scientists have established a mouse model for human malignant mesothelioma that will provide valuable insight into cancer development and progression along with new directions for design of ... > full story -
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Asbestos Disease Projections Too Low
April 4, 2007 — Current predictions of the future incidence of asbestos-related disease have been substantially underestimated, according to new modelling to be presented in Melbourne today by an epidemiologist from ... > full story -
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Mesothelioma: Chemo Combination Improves Survival In Asbestos-related Cancer
February 11, 2007 — People with mesothelioma -- a form of cancer associated with asbestos exposure -- have a higher survival rate when treated with a combination of two cancer drugs, a large multicenter study ... > full story -
Exposure To Volcanic Mineral Associated With Increased Mesothelioma Incidence In Turkey
March 20, 2006 — High exposure to a fibrous volcanic mineral called erionite was associated with a high incidence of a type of cancer called mesothelioma, according to a study in the March 15 issue of the Journal ... > full story
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