Over time, pleural diseases can develop as a result. When you breathe, your lungs move against your chest wall. The pleura, which covers the rib cage as well as your lungs, produces fluid that acts as ...

Stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is lung cancer that has spread to nearby (regional) tissues. Stage 3 also has three sub-stages that give more details about how and where the cancer has ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

Vanessa Gascoigne, Merck Sharp & Dohme (New Zealand) Limited (MSD) Director, says, “We are excited about these new registrations as mesothelioma, Merkel cell carcinoma and biliary tract cancer ...

Vanessa Gascoigne, Merck Sharp & Dohme (New Zealand) Limited (MSD) Director, says, “We are excited about these new registrations as mesothelioma, Merkel cell carcinoma and biliary tract cancer are ...

The role of surgery for malignant pleural mesothelioma encompasses the ... as well as the prognostic effect of epithelial versus nonepithelial cell type, extrapleural nodal involvement, tumor ...

The combination of cisplatin plus pemetrexed is the standard first-line chemotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Carboplatin may replace cisplatin if treatment-related toxicities become a ...

PBMCs (1×10 6) and pleural fluid cells were incubated with fluorochrome-conjugated monoclonal antibody for ... In total, 47 patients were enrolled; among them, 17, 14, 14, and 2 patients were ...

Non-malignant cells (T and NK cells) were used as control references to estimate the CNVs of ... These results suggest that SSG therapy induces the remodeling of the pleural fluid microenvironment in ...

Mesothelioma tumors may be composed of the following cell types: Epithelioid (or epithelial ... A 2018 report in Frontiers in Oncology found that patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma generally ...