Health News from Medical News Today: Combination Therapy Shows Promise For Rare, Deadly Cancer Caused By Asbestos

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Combination Therapy Shows Promise For Rare, Deadly Cancer Caused By Asbestos 2 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm Pleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) (or en bloc removal of the lung and surrounding tissue) with PDT, indicates new research from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The research is published in the June 2011 issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.