MesoTV Podcast: Conversations Impacting the Mesothelioma Community

Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation
MesoTV Podcast: Conversations Impacting the Mesothelioma Community

The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation developed MesoTV in response to the need to cancel our annual International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma. In our first season we covered a number of topics, many focused on the immediate effects of Covid-19 on mesothelioma treatment. In our second season and beyond, we focus on more traditional topics such as advances in treatment, mesothelioma science, the patient and caregiver experience and quality of life. The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation is the only nonprofit charity organization dedicated to ending mesothelioma, and the suffering caused by this cancer, by: funding research to improve treatment options; providing treatment support and education for patients and their families; and advocating for federal funding of research.

  1. 2023. 03. 16.

    Radiation oncology for mesothelioma: IMRT, proton, alone or w/ surgery, plus immunotherapy

    Andreas Rimner, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joins us for a conversation about radiation oncology and currently available clinical trials. He discussed various ways patients can benefit from radiation therapy, including an overview of different types of radiation and different modes of treatment. Radiation therapy can be applied alone, or in combination with other treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, or immunotherapy. Dr. Rimner is a radiation oncologist who specializes in caring for people with cancers of the chest, known as thoracic cancers. These include non-small cell and small cell lung cancers, pleural mesotheliomas, thymomas, lung metastases, sarcomas, and other rare tumors of the chest. He works closely with a highly skilled team of experts from many areas — including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, medical physicists, and radiation therapists — to determine the best treatment options for his patients. HIs team uses the most advanced radiation techniques, including stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) or stereotactic ablative body radiation (SABR), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), intensity-modulated pleural radiation therapy (IMPRINT), MR-guided radiation therapy, and proton radiation to precisely target cancers while limiting damage to normal tissues. MesoTV is a program by the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. This program is made possible by our generous sponsors: Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd, LLC (MRHFM); Bristol Myers Squibb; Novocure, Merck, The Gori Law Firm, TCR2, AstraZeneca, Early Lucarelli Sweeney & Meisenkothen. Search our previous episodes for topics/speakers of interest to you at www.curemeso.org/mesotv.

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  2. 2023. 03. 13.

    Immunotherapy for mesothelioma - what is available now, and what is coming soon?

    In this episode of MesoTV, we are joined by Dr. Ibiayi Dagogo-Jack a thoracic oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She helps us understand the types of immunotherapy treatments currently available to mesothelioma patients, and treatments undergoing clinical trials that might be available in the future. We discuss the ipilimumab/nivolumab (Yervoy/Opdivo) combination, Keytruda (pembrolizumab), and the combination of durvalumab (Imfinzi) with standard chemotherapy that is currently being studied. We also discuss targeted therapies. Dr. Dagogo-Jack explains in a very approachable way the theory behind immunotherapy in general, as well as why certain immunotherapies might be better choices for certain patients. Dr. Ibiayi Dagogo-Jack received her bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Following residency, she completed hematology/oncology fellowship in the combined Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute program. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a medical oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where she specializes in thoracic cancers. She conducts clinical/translational research focused on understanding mechanisms underlying resistance to cancer therapeutics and clinical trials designed to evaluate novel combinations in lung cancer and mesothelioma.

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The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation developed MesoTV in response to the need to cancel our annual International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma. In our first season we covered a number of topics, many focused on the immediate effects of Covid-19 on mesothelioma treatment. In our second season and beyond, we focus on more traditional topics such as advances in treatment, mesothelioma science, the patient and caregiver experience and quality of life. The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation is the only nonprofit charity organization dedicated to ending mesothelioma, and the suffering caused by this cancer, by: funding research to improve treatment options; providing treatment support and education for patients and their families; and advocating for federal funding of research.

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