Mesothelioma Treatment - Dr. William Smythe

Dr. William R. Smythe is currently the chairman of surgery at the Texas A and M Health Science Center College of Medicine, and also chairman of the department of surgery at Scott and White Memorial Hospital. Dr. William Smythe holds the Glen and Rita K. Roney endowed chair in surgery and is a professor of cellular and molecular medicine for the medical school.

He is certified by both the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery and he has received a number of awards.

In this video he discusses the treatment options and symptoms for patients with mesothelioma cancer. Dr. Smythe gives practical advice to mesothelioma patients for finding the right physician after being diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer. He also speaks about his research interests in asbestos mesothelioma cancer and new trends he believes will emerge in the cancer field in the future.

Source: New Cancer Mentality You Tube Channel

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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Treatment by Dr. Raja M. Flores

Dr. Raja Flores research has huge impact in the surgical management of malignat pleural mesothelioma. This is his video from the International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma.

Dr. Raja M. Flores

Source: Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation You Tube Channel

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Dr. Harvey Pass - What is Mesothelioma? Video

Dr. Harvey Pass explains mesothelioma cancer in depth and also discusses treatments, advocacy and what about those lawyer ads?

Dr. Harvey Pass is the Director, NYU Division of Thoracic Surgery, NYU Medical Center, New York.

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Genetics and Mesothelioma: Dr. Michele Carbone

Dr. Michele Carbone and researchers from the University of Hawaii, Cancer Center identify genetic mutation that increases susceptibility to mesothelioma cancer and potentially other forms of cancer.

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Mechanisms which could be activating meso.

Layard and Stanton hypothesized in 1977/78 that chemical effects linked to cancer (mesothelioma) are not initiated by the toxicity of fibrous materials, that's any trigger-effects of asbestos must presumably be physical. They presume:
 

• (A) mechanical damage
• (B) unwanted signal channels (a property for thin transparent fibres) which might disrupt normal cell activity, especially mitosis.

(A) Mechanical Damage. There is experimental evidence that very slim fibers (<60 nm, <0.06 μm in width) do tangle destructively with chromosomes (being comparably sized ). It is quite clear that it's likely to cause the sort of mitosis disruption expected in cancer (mesothelioma).

(B) Unwanted Signal Channels. This presume has recently been explored theoretically, but unfortunately not yet experimentally. The theory claims that this effect would only be feasible for asbestos fibers >100 nm in width ( or >150 nm in the chrysotile case), suggesting that we should be on the look-out for a possible mixture of different mechanisms for the various fiber-diameter-ranges.

One popular idea of the causal chain is

             (1) Asbestos fiber → → (3) inflammation → → (4) other pathology

Although this may be true, it does't explain → → (2) the actual trigger.

"What is the physical characteristic of asbestos which initiates such an inflammation?"

After all, inflammation is commonly seen as caused by chemical-based processes: immunological and/or bacterial. So inflammation may well be part of the causal chain, but not a crucial first step.

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2011 ADAO AAC: Interview with Dr. Raja Flores

7th Annual ADAO International Asbestos Awareness Conference
"ASBESTOS: IMPACT ON PUBLIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, AND ECONOMY"
April 1 -- April 3, 2011
Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. Raja Flores

Source: Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) You Tube Channel

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Raja Flores, MD - Pleural Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma Symposium 2009 - Raja Flores, MD - Pleural Mesothelioma
Dr. Flores presentation at the International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma organized by the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation.

Source: Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (video channel)

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