This special volume of mesothelioma is dedicated to my friend Adi Gazdar

Our plain-English summary of This special volume of mesothelioma is dedicated to my friend Adi Gazdar, by M. Carbone (Translational Lung Cancer Research, 2020).

The study

• Author: M. Carbone
• Journal: Translational Lung Cancer Research
• Published: 2020;9(Suppl 1):S1-S2
• Type of article: Editorial
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher · Free full text

In plain English

This article is a short editorial, not a research study. Its author was the guest editor of a 2020 special issue of Translational Lung Cancer Research on mesothelioma, and the editorial reports no new data. The author dedicated the issue to the pathologist Adi Gazdar, who had asked the author to edit a mesothelioma issue and had planned to contribute an article on SV40 and mesothelioma, but died unexpectedly. The author recalled that Gazdar first doubted the author's earlier work reporting SV40 DNA in some human mesotheliomas. Gazdar then tested the idea using laser microdissection of mesothelioma and nearby normal tissue, and reported finding SV40 only in tumor cells. The editorial tells this as a personal memory and gives no sample counts or numerical results. The author said they hoped the issue would serve as a guide to mesothelioma. The disclosures stated several things. The editorial was not externally peer reviewed. The author holds patents, including one on HMGB1 as a biomarker for asbestos exposure, and provides paid medical-legal consulting. Research funding included donations from Honeywell International Inc. and others.

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What the study did and found

• Design: Editorial (invited dedication to a special journal issue); not a research study and reports no data
• Who was studied: No study population; the editorial is a tribute to the pathologist Adi Gazdar
• Exposure: No exposure was studied. Asbestos appears only in the title of a patent the author disclosed.
• The authors' conclusion: The author hoped the special issue would serve as a guide to mesothelioma for both medical doctors and research scientists.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Mesothelioma.

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