Detroit’s Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, in cooperation with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), will launch a targeted health initiative in January 2010 focused on environmentally-associated cancers.
The goal of the study is to associate cancer development in the state with existing potential environmental causes.  According to the Institute’s CEO Ann G. Schwartz, PhD, [...]

At any given time there are several clinical trials underway for chemotherapy treatment of mesothelioma patients.  The two drugs that have proven to be effective with some types of mesothelioma cells are pemetrexed and cisplatin.  Researchers are now experimenting with the use of these drugs in combination with other chemotherapy drugs to see if additional [...]

The Masabi Iron Range in Minnesota has been a primary source of iron ore in the U.S. for many decades.  There are large deposits of taconite ore in the region, a form of silicate rock that contains twenty to thirty percent iron.  The iron ore mines in this country have been tapped out for fifty [...]

An amendment has quietly been slipped into the Wisconsin state budget currently before the legislature that would limit the liability of companies who bought firms prior to 1972 that proved to have massive asbestos liability exposure.  The bill is designed to protect the Crown Cork & Seal Company of Philadelphia which according to the Wisconsin [...]

The July issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has a report on mesothelioma mortality for the first five years of the new millenium.  The article is based on a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) analyzing mesothelioma deaths from 1999 – 2005.  For that period 18,068 deaths attributed to [...]