Doctors specializing in cancer research, working at Nara Medical University in Japan, have identified chromosomal abnormalities which seem to affect exactly where mesothelioma develops in the body.
Lead investigator Doctor Maiko Takeda, who is with the University’s Department of Diagnostic Pathology, says that the report shows that there is a genetic difference between those patients with pleural mesothelioma, which affects the lining of the lungs and those with peritoneal mesothelioma, which is located in the lining of the abdomen.
The study, which is published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology, was based on tissue samples from 54 mesothelioma patients and could signal a breakthrough in the study of potential gene based treatments for the disease.
The majority of mesothelioma patients suffer from pleural mesothelioma with only around 30 percent having the peritoneal type of the disease.
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