We report a case of peritoneal mesothelioma discovered in a patient during peritoneal dialysis. The patient was a 55-year-old woman who had no history of asbestos exposure. Owing to end-stage kidney failure, she had been undergoing peritoneal dialysis for over 8 years, and she had been diagnosed with encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis. She was admitted to the hospital for intestinal obstruction...

Mesothelioma usually develops in elder male patients that are exposed to asbestos. Deciduoid mesothelioma is a rare variant of epithelioid mesothelioma and has a poorer prognosis than epithelioid mesothelioma. As this subtype was seen in the peritoneum of young females and its relation with asbestos was not definite, these lesions were formerly thought to be stimulated by endogenous hormones. I...

Asbestos-related disease among talc miners and millers in a group of mines in two counties of northern New York State has been noted and disputed since the 1930s. One of the two counties was identified as among the 10 in the USA with the highest mesothelioma mortality up to 1981 for both men and women. Eight talc miners had been identified in previous studies as having mesothelioma. In the curr...

Mesothelioma is a malignancy with poor prognosis. It is chiefly caused by asbestos exposure and its symptoms can occur about 30-50 yr after the initial exposure. This study aims to predict the future trends in mesothelioma mortality in Japan using a method that is an alternative to the age-cohort model. Our approach is based on a risk function that links mesothelioma mortality combined with dat...

The incidence of malignant mesothelioma is extremely high in some Turkish villages where there is a low-level environmental exposure to erionite, a fibrous zeolite. The best known example is the village of Karain. However, since epidemiological studies are difficult to perform in Turkey, the incidence and the dose-response curve have not been thoroughly examined. A small cohort of immigrants fr...

Mesothelioma is a rare, life-limiting and aggressive cancer with high symptom burden. This article explores the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on experiences patients mesothelioma their carers. The charity UK conducted service evaluation that included two surveys – one carers, other clinical nurse specialists to explore effects COVID-19 pandemic.This presents results the...

Mesothelioma is an important cause of mortality in Eng-pleural scars following empyema or therapeutic pneumo-thorax. 14 land and Wales, accounting for over 1000 deaths each year. 1 The incidence of mesothelioma is rising and, if the For mesothelioma associated with asbestos exposure it is possible that other factors may act synergistically with predictions of Peto et al are correct, then by the...

A large autopsy study of 500,000 people reported the incidence primary cardiac and pericardial tumors to be 0.0022% [1]. Primary mesothelioma (PPM) is a rare type malignant mesenc...

BACKGROUND The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway has been implicated in stem cell maintenance and its activation is aberrant in several types of cancer including mesothelioma. Protein kinase CK2 affects several cell signaling pathways through the mechanism of phosphorylation. METHODS Protein and mRNA levels of CK2α and Gli1 were tested by quantitative RT-PCR and immunohistochemistry staining in...

fundamental contribution of the authors, who characterized 3 mesothelioma cell lines cytogenetically and concerning their growth charcteristics [1]. They could show that mesothelioma cell lines could be transduced exceptionally well and appreciable expression of the transgene could be measured. The in-vivo suicide gene therapy model in NOD/SCID mice developed by the authors also showed impressi...