On behalf of Brayton Purcell LLP posted in Mesothelioma on Friday, July 12, 2013.
Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, are working on new treatments for mesothelioma, an incurable cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
It is "a completely different strategy to what anyone else has done so far," Associate Professor Sonja Klebe, who is running the novel treatments, told Yahoo! 7 News. The treatments involve both drugs and gene therapy.
It has yet to be tried on humans, but testing on animals has proven to be somewhat successful. There was "significant improvement" in animals that received the treatment, and those receiving the treatment survived longer, Prof. Klebe indicated.
Asbestos is banned in the U.S. Asbestos manufacturers knew as early as the 1920s that the product could be dangerous to its workers.
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