Diagnosing Mesothelioma with New Technique

Today I was digging for some info on ‘pleural mesothelioma’ and came across the following section:

Their results demonstrated median pleural fluid mesothelin levels were over six times greater in patients with mesothelioma than in patients with metastatic carcinomas, a…Currently, the first-line test for mesothelioma in patients with a pleural effusion is pleural fluid cytology, but this test is not very sensitive…. … eleased in high quantities into the pleural fluid of most patients with mesothelioma….Over 90 percent of patients with mesothelioma present with a pleural effusion and its incidence is predicted to peak within the next two decades….

I tried several more searches on ‘pleural mesothelioma’ but after some time I got tired, gave up and posted this entry to ‘Mesothelioma’. Still, I think it was an interesting time.