by developer@apsosmedia.com | May 26, 2022 | Dr. Skitzki, Peritoneal, Roswell Park
Bathing the abdomen in heated chemotherapy as part of surgery improves survival. Most people think of the lungs when they think of mesothelioma, a cancer caused definitively by exposure to asbestos fibers that oncologists typically treat with systemic chemotherapy....
by developer@apsosmedia.com | May 4, 2022 | Dr Allamaneni, Patient Story, The Jewish Hospital — Mercy Health
Danyell Weisinger’s care team describes her as a walking miracle. Initially, she was experiencing bad stomach pains that wouldn’t go away. She visited her family doctor and X-rays indicated that she had a fatty liver as well as a bad gall bladder. “That’s fixable,”...
by developer@apsosmedia.com | Apr 27, 2022 | Hospital, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Patients in Alabama diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma cancer no longer need to leave the state in pursuit of optimal care and long-term survival. The best possible mesothelioma treatment is now closer to home. The O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer...
by developer@apsosmedia.com | Aug 19, 2021 | Hospital, Mesothelioma, Michigan Medicine University of Michigan, Patient story page
Melissa Hough considers herself to be patient No. 154. That’s how unusual her condition is. In June, she was diagnosed with cystic mesothelioma. It’s a noncancerous version of the lung disease commonly linked to asbestos exposure. In Hough’s case, hundreds of cysts...
by developer@apsosmedia.com | Jun 28, 2021 | Case Study, Colon Cancer, Patient Story
LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 24, 2021) — Early in the evening of May 30, 2020, UK HealthCare trauma surgeon Dr. Zachary Warriner prepared an emergency operation to figure out the cause of a bowel obstruction. His patient, a 27-year old man, had come into the emergency...