News & Events: Malignant Mesothelioma

Former professor Thierry Jahan, M.D.,  discussed clinical data from the study, Safety and Efficacy of Listeria in Combination With Chemotherapy as Front-line Treatment for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, at the ESMO/IASLC European Congress on Lung Cancer in Geneva in April 2016. This is a Phase Ib trial of CRS-207 in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). Dr. Jahan spoke at OncLive, the official Website for the Oncology Specialty Group: Thierry M. Jahan, MD, a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive [...]

SFGate.com reports on the collaboration of David M. Jablons, M.D. and Jeff Peterson whose wife Karen and died from mesothelioma, a devastating disease. Dr. David Jablons couldn't save Karen Peterson's life or even extend it. But he could give quality to whatever life she had left. That turned out to be about nine months, long enough for her twin boys to see her waterskiing on Lake Tahoe and boogie-boarding in Oceanside and laughing more than coughing.  Jablons, chief cardiothoracic surgeon at UCSF, was the last in a line of specialists Peterson had sought out coast to coast in a 22-month [...]