Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a highly aggressive tumor associated with asbestos
exposure. There are few effective treatment options for mesothelioma, and patients have a …

Refer all patients with a chest X-ray suggestive of MPM urgently (via the 2-week wait
suspected cancer pathway in England and Wales). Consider referral for further investigation …

Early diagnosis of lung cancer helps to reduce the cancer death rate significantly. Over the
years, investigators worldwide have extensively investigated many screening modalities for …

Lung cancer is sometimes difficult to differentiate from benign lung diseases expressing
nodular shadow in imaging study. We assessed the diagnostic value of two commonly used …

Abstract The European Respiratory Society (ERS)/European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
(ESTS)/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)/European Society for …

Purpose. Liver metastasis is the final stage of cancer progression and is associated with
poor prognosis. Although numerous indicators have been identified as having prognostic …

Background To date, no biomarkers with reasonable sensitivity and specificity for the early
detection of malignant mesothelioma have been described. The use of microRNAs …

Objectives: Although low-dose computed tomography has been confirmed to have
meaningful diagnostic utility, lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer-related deaths …

Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is strongly associated with a previous asbestos exposure. To
improve timely detection of MM in asbestos workers, better screening tools–like minimally …

Background For the detection of malignant mesothelioma no single biomarker with
reasonable sensitivity and specificity has been described so far. Mesothelin, the most …