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What Treatments Are Available for Victims of Mesothelioma?

Mesothelioma is touted as deadly because most
of  the  casespartially succesfull. This is because the
patient  recovers
are diagnosed when in advanced stage and
doctors  have  littlepartially after using drugs or combination
of  drugs  (In  fact
solace to offer by then. Still doctors try
to  do  their  bestthe efficacy of this method increases, if
combination  of
to relieve the patients from severe pain of
mesotheliomadrugs are used at the same time.) Some of
these  combinations
using advanced treatments.SurgeryBefore
considering surgery as one of thehave proved successful and new drugs are
propositions  forbeing  developed  for
the treatment of malignant cancer, thethe treatment of this cancer.Radiation
health  of  the  patientTherapyIn this method the tumor is killed by
using  radiation  doses.
needs to be carefully evaluated. The tests
are  performed  toHowever, with the help of this procedure,
killing  the  tumor
check whether the cancer has spread to other
parts  of  thecells is quite difficult. This is because of
the  fact  that
body or not. Also evaluation of the
patient's  lung  and  heartit is difficult to specifically locate the
malignant  cells.
functions is done. In case of the former, a
mesotheliomaAlso the heart, lungs and other organs may
surround  the
surgery cannot be performed. Both the heart
and  lungs  needsame, and they are at the risk of getting
damaged  by  the
to be properly functioning state for surgery
to take place.Surgery is of two types:radiation dosage. However lower doses of
aggressive  surgery  (long-termradiation  can  be
control) and palliative procedures (reliefused to reduce the disease to a certain
of  symptoms).extent.Dual TherapyBoth chemotherapy and
radiation  are  used  in  conjunction
Let's define each of them
separately.Aggressive surgeryAggressiveafter the performance of the surgery. They
surgery involves removal of the lung, theboth  help  in
pleura,
killing any remaining tumor cells that were
the diaphragm and the pericardium by anot  removed  by
procedure,  which  is
surgery and may also help in relieving
known as extra pleural pneumonectomy. Thesymptoms  of  the
intention  to
disease like chest pain.The treatment
follow this method is to physically removemethods, which are described above, are
as  much  of  thedirect
tumor as possible. It is in fact adopting aways of treating a person suffering from
bold  method  tomesothelioma.
do away with the disease-hence the name isHowever doctors and researchers are always
"Aggressiveon  the  lookout
surgery".This surgery is extremelyfor new ways to treat mesothelioma. The
complicated  and  involves  highnecessity  for  the
risk. This is because of the fact that thereevolution of alternative ways to treat
are  possiblepatients  suffering
chances of death due to the same within afrom mesothelioma arises because of the
month.  Extracomplex  nature  of
pleural pneumonectomy is therefore normallydifferent types of cancers, and because
performed  onpatients  respond
younger patients who are in good health anddifferently to various types of medical
are  in  acare.
position to tolerate the surgery.PalliativeSome of them are as follows:Immunoagumentive
ProceduresPalliative procedures are normallyTherapy (IAT)The goal of IAT is to strengthen
performed  when  the  cancerthe  body's  own  immune
is in its advanced form. These proceduressystem. The same is done by balancing four
are  performed  todifferent
control the symptoms of mesothelioma ratherproteins found in the blood.Intraoperative
than  cure  them.Photodynamic Therapy (IPT)This method of
treatment  is being used to cure early stages
Pleurectomy (also decortications) is the
process  toof mesothelioma in the chest. IPT uses
special  drugs  and
surgically remove the pleura. This method
reduces  the  painlight to kill cancer cells during surgery. A
drug  that  makes
caused by the cancerous mass and may also
prevent  thetumor cells more sensitive to light is
injected  into  a  vein
recurrence of pleural effusion (fluid
collection  whichseveral days before surgery. During surgery,
a  special  light
causes tremendous breathlessness). For
patients  sufferingis used to locate the cancer.Gene
TherapyThis is a unique method whereby the
from peritoneal mesothelioma, completeresearchers  either  try
surgical  removal  of
to improve the body's natural ability to
the entire tumor is not entirely possible.fight  against  the
In  this  case  the
diseases or alternatively make the cancer
surgery aims to extenuate the symptoms, suchcells  more
as ascites,ChemotherapyChemotherapy is the
method  in  which  drugs  are  used  to treatsensitive to other kinds of therapy.Did you
know  mesothelioma
mesothelioma. It has been observed that this
method  isclinical symptoms are hard to detect?



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