‘Twenty Years’ etiketi için içerik arşivleri
It’s interesting. Since my own diagnosis, my view of cancer and cancer treatment has changed. I think many of us have thought of cancer as an “all or nothing” disease for a long time. We are either cured or we aren’t. We survive or we don’t survive. Our cancer is either gone or it’s there. [...]
The survival rate of individuals diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer remains low. Each year more than 2,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States. Even though people have had mesothelioma since the turn of the century, the survival rate for patients has only been studied for the past twenty years. The fundamental problem with estimating [...]
The overall prognosis for individuals with mesothelioma is not very good. The disease has among the lowest five year survivability rates among different cancers and remains extraordinarily difficult to treat. While research is ongoing and our knowledge of the disease is definitely increasing faster than it ever has, doctors know an actual cure is still [...]