Today, the Meso Foundation wrote a letter to the acting administrator of the EPA urging the agency to account for legacy asbestos when evaluating asbestos risk and the magnitude of the asbestos problem. This letter came as a response to the EPA’s decision to exclude legacy uses of asbestos in its problem formulation. This issue is separate from the recently publicized ‘significant new use rule.’ You can read more here.
Adding immunotherapy to chemotherapy plus bevacizumab shows promising benefit in survival for non-epitheliod mesothelioma patients, but not across the board
The phase 3 clinical trial known as BEAT-meso, which combines chemotherapy plus bevacizumab with immunotherapy, has shown an improvement in overall survival (OS) and progression-free