A new study is being conducted at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center. Researchers are in the process of selecting candidates who are suffering from mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure.

The new study, directed by Dr. Robert Taub, will focus on a combination of targeted chemotherapy and radiation. The treatments will focus on the lining of the lungs, which is the area in which mesothelioma spreads.

Mesothelioma is a rare form of lung cancer caused from exposure to asbestos. The prognosis of mesothelioma is almost always fatal as current treatments have not been proven successful.

Mesothelioma cancer attorneys are working with those who are suffering from asbestos exposure.

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