“On behalf of the Mesothelioma Program at the University of Chicago Medicine, I want to thank you for your generous partnership,” Johnston said in her letter to our sponsor Kazan Law. “Thanks to supporters like you, our investigators are advancing mesothelioma research and improving therapeutic and preventative strategies to treat the patients for whom we all care so deeply.” Six new scientific mesothelioma clinical trials will be launched in the next six months by the University of Chicago’s School of Medicine’s Mesothelioma Program. The university mesothelioma program was able to secure … [Read more...]
Clinical Trials
New Mesothelioma Clinical Trial to Test Timing of Medication
Because the decision to participate in an experimental mesothelioma clinical trial is such a complex one requiring a lot of thought and planning, this month for our monthly experimental clinical trial blog post, we are presenting you with one that hasn’t even started recruiting yet. The research scientists and the drug company they are teaming with for this mesothelioma clinical trial are still getting all their ducks in a row. But it’s been listed on the U.S. government’s official clinical trial website so it’s a go. This may be a good chance to get in on the ground floor with enough time to … [Read more...]
Participants Needed for Mesothelioma Clinical Trial Vaccine Treatment
As cancer research scientists continue to explore vaccines as a way to treat cancer, we will continue to inform you about new experimental mesothelioma vaccine clinical trials recruiting volunteers. The mesothelioma clinical trial we report on here is intriguing because it is a pilot study. That means it is so experimental that it is a small preliminary study to help researchers get enough information to design a full-scale research project. Because it is a pilot study, it is being conducted by the National Cancer Institute only at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in … [Read more...]
New Mesothelioma Vaccine Treatment Study Now Recruiting
Vaccines are hot in cancer research right now and a mesothelioma vaccine treatment is part of this new scientific effort. We’ve found a new mesothelioma vaccine treatment study now recruiting participants. The study is under the auspices of the federal government’s prestigious National Cancer Institute headquartered outside of Washington D.C. in Bethesda, MD and simultaneously being conducted at top cancer centers across the United States. One of them is the Comprehensive Cancer Care Center at the University of California San Francisco. Most of the vaccines we get throughout our lives seek … [Read more...]
New Innovative Mesothelioma Treatment Study in England Needs Participants
What does mesothelioma treatment have in common with the poem that begins “Oh to be in England, now that April’s there?” Basically the fact that it’s April and there’s a very interesting mesothelioma treatment clinical trial underway in England that is now recruiting participants. The clinical trial is being done at the Experimental Cancer Medicine Center of the Sheffield Teaching Hospital in Sheffield, a city in South Yorkshire 144 miles from London. What makes this clinical trial interesting is the novel approach to mesothelioma treatment. The researchers are testing using a catheter to … [Read more...]
Mesothelioma Clinical Trial Volunteers Needed To Test New Radiation Technique
The limitations of mesothelioma treatment understandably frustrates and upsets mesothelioma patients and their families. What if you could try a new experimental treatment that holds out promise? Would you try a mesothelioma clinical trial? What if there were risks involved? Would it still be worth taking a chance? In a classic science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” a developmentally disabled man tries an experimental treatment that turns him into a genius. He is able to do scientific research, falls in love and is happy. Then he notices that a laboratory mouse who received the same … [Read more...]
Mesothelioma Treatment Clinical Trial in Mexico City Recruiting Participants
Eager to try a mesothelioma treatment not offered in the US, American movie star Steve McQueen journeyed to Mexico in 1980. Unfortunately, the outlandish treatments that McQueen tried at the time - including shampoos and injections with cells from cows and sheep - failed to help him. There was no completely effective mesothelioma treatment then just as there is no completely effective mesothelioma treatment now. But in the nearly 35 years since that time there have been strides made by science in researching a cure for this terrible disease. And Mexico is rapidly developing capabilities in … [Read more...]
New Mesothelioma Clinical Trial Gives You a Shot in the Arm to Fight Mesothelioma
All those who struggle with asbestos-caused disease run into the same wall – there are few ways to fight mesothelioma. That is why we need to continue looking for any openings in that wall and do our best to help expand them into bigger and better ways to fight mesothelioma. We need to help tear down that wall through mesothelioma clinical trials. One of the ways to help fight mesothelioma is to participate in a mesothelioma clinical trial. In other words, become a guinea pig to help medical researchers on track to help find a cure. How do we know they’re on track? Their call for study … [Read more...]
Is Participating in a Mesothelioma Treatment Clinical Trial Right For You?
As a mesothelioma patient, participating in a mesothelioma treatment clinical trial seems like a good course of action to take. You will be helping medical research advance a new experimental mesothelioma treatment that one day could help save the lives of many mesothelioma patients. Also because treatment options are limited at this time, a mesothelioma treatment clinical trial offers hope and a way to access a new state-of-the-art treatment. That’s why we regularly monitor the federal government’s clinical trials website and present to you new mesothelioma treatment clinical trials … [Read more...]
Fighting Mesothelioma With the Measles – Mayo Clinic/NCI Mesothelioma Clinical Trial
Just like the saying, “Fight fire with fire,” a mesothelioma clinical trial now recruiting participants is looking into fighting mesothelioma with the measles. But don’t worry; the scientists are not going to give you a case of the measles. Specifically, they are investigating fighting mesothelioma by using a specific measles virus to vanquish malignant mesothelioma cells. Although the study first started getting underway a couple of years ago, it is now in the phase of actively looking for mesothelioma patients interested in trying this novel approach to fighting … [Read more...]