We have heard this story from our patients over and over again: after their diagnosis, the patient and their family are catapulted into an intensive…
Since 2008, the Department of Defense has funded mesothelioma research through its Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program – more specifically, through the Peer Reviewed Cancer…
The challenges of treating mesothelioma are well known to this community of patients, caregivers, bereaved, and the physicians who treat them. Particularly, researchers have been…
A Phase 3 trial in relapsed mesothelioma patients showed a significant improvement in overall survival and progression-free survival when patients were treated with nivolumab. Nivolumab…
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs’ (CDMPR), Rare Cancers Research Program (RCRP) consumer advocate Jessica Blackford-Cleeton recently participated in the evaluation of research applications submitted…
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs’ (CDMPR), Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) consumer advocates Katie Jamieson and Jessica Blackford-Cleeton recently participated in the evaluation…
The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation’s 2020 mesothelioma research grant cycle is now accepting pre-application letters of intent (LOI) until 11:59 PM ET Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 on proposalCENTRAL.…
Below, Dr. Taylor Ripley, a thoracic surgeon at Baylor and a member of the board of directors of the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, takes a…
Today, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation announced that it will fund three research projects in the field of mesothelioma for a total investment of $300,000…
At the end of May, in a brand new virtual format, the annual meeting for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) was one of…