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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 theJournal ... > full story
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  Elevated Blood Levels Of A Protein Are Linked To Asbestos-induced Cancers

  October 17, 2005 — Researchers at New York University School of Medicine and Wayne State University have found a molecule that reveals the early stages of pleural mesothelioma, a chest cancer caused by asbestos. The ... > full story
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  Naturally Occurring Asbestos Linked To Lung Cancer

  July 15, 2005 — Everyday exposure to naturally occurring asbestos increases the risk of developing malignant mesothelioma, according to a study by UC Davis researchers. The study - the largest to examine the ... > full story
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  Workers Exposed To Libby Vermiculite Ore Have High Rate Of Chest Wall Abnormalities

  July 10, 2005 — More than one-quarter of tested workers at an Ohio manufacturing plant historically exposed to asbestos-containing vermiculite ore exhibited signs of scarring of the chest wall lining, or pleural ... > full story
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  No Role For Simian Virus 40 In Human Pleural Mesotheliomas

  September 27, 2004 — A study, published in the September 25 issue of Lancet, calls into question the proposed link between SV40 and pleural mesothelioma and provides a possible explanation for the discrepancies in the ... > full story