On this episode of MesoTV, our Patient Services Director, Julie White, sits down with Melissa Culligan, PhD, RN. Melissa is the Director of Thoracic Surgery Research at Temple University Hospital and the Co-Director of the Temple Health Mesothelioma and Pleural Disease Program. She goes through the details of thoracic surgery…
On this episode of MesoTV, join our Patient Services Director, Julie White, as she speaks with Marjorie Zauderer, MD, MS, FACP, and Lee Krug, MD, about the eVOLVE meso clinical trial for patients with pleural mesothelioma. Our SponsorsMesoTV is a program by the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. This program is made…
On this episode of MesoTV, our Patients Services Director, Julie White, RN, BSN, OCN, sits down with our new Executive Director, Brian Lepacek, MDiv, CAE, to discuss his role and how he got to the foundation. If you haven’t met Brian yet, definitely check out this episode to get to…
CAR-T (Chimeric antigen receptor) cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy that uses a patient’s T cells to attack cancer cells. T cells are white blood cells that fight infection and illness, but cancer cells can sometimes trick the immune system. CAR T-cell therapy helps the body’s immune system see…
In this episode of MesoTV, three patients, two with peritoneal mesothelioma and one with pleural mesothelioma, tell their stories of diagnosis, treatment, subsequent recurrence, and…
The field of integrative medicine combines conventional therapies with complementary ones in a thoughtful way to optimize outcomes and/or quality of life. Services provided under…
This episode of MesoTV features Jacob Strand, MD in an interview with Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation’s nurse, Julie White, RN, BSN, OCN. The topic of…
Melina Marmarelis, MD, Thoracic Medical Oncologist, UPenn joins us for an interview about precision medicine for mesothelioma. She discusses biomarker information, such as histology (currently…
Due to recent advances in cancer treatment, especially in the field of immunotherapy, chemotherapy treatment options for mesothelioma have taken a back seat. However, this…
In this episode, we interview Cristobal. After some concerning abdominal pain brought him to his doctor and started a chain reaction of tests, Cristobal’s diagnosis…