THURSDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Adding chemotherapy to other treatments being giving to patients with mesothelioma, a lung cancer usually linked to asbestos exposure, does not appear to improve either survival or quality of life.
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), which is usually fatal, is a cancer of the protective lining that covers the lungs. Asbestos is still produced or used in large quantities in countries such as Russia, China, Canada, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Zimbabwe, India and Thailand.
