4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Impact of induction therapy on postoperative outcome after extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: does induction-accelerated hemithoracic radiation increase the surgical risk?
This retrospective study from Toronto General Hospital, Canada, reviewed patients who had extrapleural pneumonectomy for malignant pleural mesothelioma between January 2001 and December 2014. In this operation the lung, outer chest lining, diaphragm and heart sac…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
A feasibility study evaluating Surgery for Mesothelioma After Radiation Therapy: the "SMART" approach for resectable malignant pleural mesothelioma
This phase I/II feasibility study came from Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Toronto General Hospital, Canada. It tested a treatment, SMART, for surgically removable malignant pleural mesothelioma. It did not study asbestos exposure. From November…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
SORORIN and PLK1 as potential therapeutic targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…It did not study asbestos exposure. The authors measured gene activity in nine tumor samples from Toronto General Hospital and in four mesothelioma cell lines. They reported that both genes were overexpressed in a majority of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Consensus Report of the 2015 Weinman International Conference on Mesothelioma
…as high mobility group box 1 and fibulin-3, are promising. There was general agreement that current treatment for MM, which is based on surgery and standard chemotherapy, has a modest effect on the overall survival…