More than 215,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. For many of them, surgery to remove the tumor is just the first step in the battle against the disease, often followed by radiation and/or chemotherapy. After that, these women may need to decide with their doctor whether to have "adjuvant therapy"-medication to help prevent their cancer from coming back.When a woman's breast cancer does come back or spreads to other parts of...more
One interesting study is called, "Determinants of restrictive lung function in asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis" by D. A. Schwartz, J. R. Galvin, C. S. Dayton, W. Stanford, J. A. Merchant and G. W. Hunninghake - Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242. J Appl Physiol 68: 1932-1937, 1990. Here is an excerpt: "We evaluated whether restrictive lung function among asbestos-exposed individuals with pleural...more
One interesting study is called, "Hemizygosity of Nf2 is associated with increased susceptibility to asbestos-induced peritoneal tumours" by Jocelyne Fleury-Feith, Céline Lecomte, Annie Renier, Mireille Matrat, Laurence Kheuang, Vincent Abramowski, Françoise Levy, Anne Janin, Marco Giovannini and Marie-Claude Jaurand - Oncogene (2003) 22, 3799–3805. Here is an excerpt: "Abstract - Biallelic NF2 gene inactivation is frequently found in human malignant mesothelioma. In order to assess whether NF2 hemizygosity may enhance susceptibility to asbestos fibres, we investigated the Nf2 status in mesothelioma developed in mice presenting a heterozygous mutation of the Nf2 gene (Nf2KO3/+), after intraperitoneal inoculation of crocidolite fibres. Asbestos-exposed Nf2KO3/+ mice developed tumoural ascites and mesothelioma at a higher frequency than their wild-type (WT) counterparts (P amosite > crocidolite. All three asbestos types were more toxic to I-407 than to ARL-6 cells. Chrysotile, amosite, and crocidolite were also tested for inhibition of colony formation in cultures of mouse colon-derived epithelial-like (MCE-1) cells; these cells were more resistant than the...more
One interesting study is called, "In vitro approaches for determining mechanisms of toxicity and carcinogenicity by asbestos in the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts." By B T Mossman - Environ Health Perspect. 1983 November; 53: 155–161. Here is an excerpt: "Abstract Organ and cell cultures of gastrointestinal and...more
One interesting study is called, "A retrospective mortality cohort study of chrysotile asbestos products workers in Tianjin 1972–1987" by Wei-nan Cheng and Jian Kong - Environmental Research - Volume 59, Issue 1, October 1992, Pages 271-278. Here is an excerpt: "The mortality rate of a cohort of asbestos workers was investigated...more
One interesting study is called, "Asbestos-induced lung inflammation" by Marek Rola-Pleszczynski, Sylvie Gouin and Raymond Bégin - Inflammation Volume 8, Number 1, 53-62. Here is an excerpt: "Abstract - In a recently developed sheep model of progressive low-dose pulmonary exposure to asbestos, initial alveolar lymphocyte and macrophage activation was followed by pulmonary neutrophilia in higher-dose exposed animals. This was observed after 18 months of exposure to intratracheal instillations of asbestos fibers and coincided with progressive alveolitis and decreased lung compliance. Alveolar macrophages from those animals were found to produce a chemotactic factor which attracted in vitro peripheral blood neutrophils. It attracted neutrophils more efficiently from higher-exposure than lower-exposure animals. Supernatants of control macrophages exposed to asbestos in vitro were also chemotactic for PMN. Similarly, bronchoalveolar lavage fluids from the animals showed chemotactic activity for peripheral blood neutrophils. It is suggested that chronic exposure to asbestos activates alveolar macrophages to produce chemotactic factors which in turn attract neutrophils...more
One interesting study is called, "Asbestos exposure enhances the release of fibroblast growth factor by sheep alveolar macrophages." By Lemaire I, Rola-Pleszczynski M, Bégin R. - J Reticuloendothel Soc. 1983 Apr;33(4):275-85. Here is...more
One interesting study is called, "Histologic type of lung cancer and asbestos exposure" by Oscar Auerbach MD, Lawrence Garfinkel MA, Verta R. Parks BS, Alfred S. Conston MD, Vincent A. Galdi MD, Lou Jouberti,- Cancer Volume 54, Issue...more
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There are lots of women who are suffering from breast cancer which has been increasing as a serious problem these days. Now you do not need to take stress further as this disease is curable. There is a treatment known as diagnostic mammography which...more
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