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Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Subject: House Panel Rejects Last of Va. Anti-smoking Bills
To: mesothelioma77@gmail.com
A last-gasp effort to ban smoking in restaurants and most other public places died Thursday in a House of Delegates subcommittee. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:32:14 GMT
Source: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0208/496199.html
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The 2 surgical procedures used are pleurectomy with decortication and extrapleural pneumonectomy.
Surgical resection has been relied upon because radiation and chemotherapy get hold of been ineffective unequivocal treatments. There are now a number of cancer treatment options open to mesothelioma patients. Extrapleural pneumonectomy for selected victims with very early stage disease may expand recurrence-free survival, but the impact it has on overall survival is unknown at this time.
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The purpose of such investigations in mesothelioma diagnosis is to confirm and to determine the type of mesothelioma, to 'stage' the disease (measure how severe it is), and so to assess whether the disease is operable.