IMRT for Mesothelioma: Barriers to Completing Treatment
IMRT for Mesothelioma: Barriers to Completing Treatment Anderson researchers say too patients who might benefit IMRT mesothelioma never the treatment. The could IMRT for Mesothelioma: be impacting their Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) a type of targeted It designed direct much radiation possible into the mesothelioma without harming the surrounding Patients who have a of surgery, and IMRT mesothelioma have the best of But at Anderson Cancer Center. A new report shows pleural mesothelioma rates in the US have failed to decline as they were predicted to do, but survival is improving slightly. The US government began to implement tighter restrictions on asbestos in the 1970s. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic say original projections had the incidence of pleural mesothelioma peaking in the early 2000s as a result. Pleural mesothelioma rates were supposed to decline after that. But numbers from the National Cancer Database (NCDB) tell a different story...