Comments for International Mesothelioma Interest Group

Comment on Serum mesothelin for diagnosing malignant pleural mesothelioma by Tahmid

Tahmid — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:08:27 +0000

Thank-you, For a informative post. I have question sir,
What is urge ensuing diagnostic?

Comment on LINKS by Michael Meso

Michael Meso — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:19:08 +0000

Hi,

I think you can add much more sites from web about mesothelioma.

All the best,
M.

Comment on North American Declaration to Eliminate Asbestos-related Diseases by Rabab Gaafar

Rabab Gaafar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:08:48 +0000

Mandatory to be applied every where.
Rabab Gaafar

Comment on IMIG2012 Key dates by Takumi Kishimoto

Takumi Kishimoto — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:44:54 +0000

Content and distribution of asbestos particles in the lung of mesothelioma
Takumi Kishimoto,MD,PhD

　For 143 case of malignant mesothelioma(135 cases of male, 8 cases of female), the number of asbestos particles are counted by the modified method of Kohyama. The age ranged from 31 to 89 years with the median of 67 years old. One hundred thirty one cases originated from pleura and 12 cases from peritoneum. For the pathological types of tumors, 52.4% showed epithelioid type, both biphasic and sarcomatoid were 20.3% , 2.8% of desmplastic type and the other 14.2% are histologically unknown.
For the histories of asbestos exposure, 86.4% of them had occupational exposure, 0.7% environment exposure and 10.5% had non-asbestos exposure and other 2.1% were unknown. Fifty six point six percent exhibited pleural plaques on the chest x-ray or CT scanning and only 0.7% showed asbestosis.
The content of asbestos particles in the 1g of dry lung tissue ranged from 35 to 1,740,957. Fifty point three percent of them had more than 5,000 particles and 18.9% had less than 1,000. and other 30.8 % had between 1,000 to 4,999 particles. About 80% had occupational asbestos exposed histories and more than 1,000 asbestos particles.
Furthermore, the distribution of asbestos particles in the laterality or distribution of upper, middle or lower bodies of lungs were also examine for 44 cases of mesothelioma. Upper lobes contained 133,215±229,784 particles with the median of 10,832, middle lobes 81,058±116,115 with median of 12,999 and lower lobes of 100,915±180,721 with the median 19,656 particles, which meant no significant distributions among upper middle, and lower lobes of lungs. Furthermore, laterality of lungs, upper partilces per lower particles in the left side was 1.0±0.6 with the median of 1.2 and the right side was 1.5±1.6 with median of 1.0. These data suggested that deposit of asbestos particles in the lung had no literalities nor distribution of lungs
Eight seven point one percent of mesothelioma in Japan were induced by the occupational exposure to asbestos and 81.1% of mesothelioma cases had more than 1,000 asbestos particles per 1g of dry lung tissue. On the other hand, the laterality and distribution of the deposit of asbestos particles in the lung tissues were not observed by the counting asbestos particles.

Comment on LINKS by lisa barrett

lisa barrett — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:06:55 +0000

Hi I was wondering if you could tell me who does the most surgeries annually . thanks lisa

Comment on Guidelines by Lorenzo Scognamiglio

Lorenzo Scognamiglio — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:31:13 +0000

First of all I want to give my compliment for this interesting site. I’m writing you from the Italy. My father was diagnosed with “localized malignant mesothelioma” in August 2011, he has subsequently a surgery operation in order to remove the mesothelioma mass (on the upper side of the lung) that has already affected the lung itself and part of the rib, both were removed. In October 2011, my father started chemioterapy with cisplatin and pemetrexed(alimta). Altough this kind of mesothelioma (the localized one) it’s not so clear (few cases are reported in the literature) no doctor expected brain metastes, that appears in December 2011. The two metastases (2cm and 0,5cm)have been treated with Stereotactic Radiotherapy (Gamma knife) in order to stop their growth.Altough the Positron emission tomography (PET) shows no other “active cells” in the rest of the body, I would know if you have experiences in other therapy (or changing in chemioterapy ) to be more effective to avoid the growth of other metastes cells. And besides, how many cases have you heard of brain metastes due to localized mesothelioma? Which is the prognosis? Who is the specialist center in the US I can contact?
Thank you in advance.
Mr. Lorenzo Scognamiglio

Comment on General information by bazin

bazin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:43:51 +0000

Could you please give me some publication references or information about: general practitioner’s role in prevention, diagnosis and treatement of peritoneal mesothelioma and peritoneal pseudomyxoma?

Many thank in advance

Best regards

Laure Bazin

Comment on IMIG2012 Boston by Marc Gregoire

Marc Gregoire — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:32:03 +0000

Innovative therapeutics => Virotherapy, Vaccine(s)

Comment on Message from the iMig President by Luciano Mutti

Luciano Mutti — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:45:45 +0000

Welcome onboard to Hecheng Li !

Luciano

Comment on Dr. Hedy Kindler speaking about Treatment Options at the IMIG2010 in Kyoto by Courtney Broaddus

Courtney Broaddus — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:19:01 +0000

An excellent talk! Probably a bit outdated by this time…but it shows what can be done with video on imig.org. Kudos to the website manager!