Mesothelioma Treatments

There are different types of treatment in patients with mesothelioma, it is recommended is often better than others. The most common treatment is surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In addition, some experimental procedures are becoming more and more widely used, or some encouraging results in clinical trials. These procedures include: photodynamic therapy, immunotherapy and gene therapy.

Most treatments are not insulated. In most cases, treatment may be combination therapy. For example, cancer surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy can be eliminated as much as possible, should be followed to remove residual cancer cells. This is one of the most common treatment for mesothelioma in those who are candidates for surgery.

If you or your loved ones have been linked to mesothelioma, it may be of interest to diagnosis and treatment programs. Work with your doctor to create the best treatment plan is an important step. To understand the plan of treatment, cancer treatment often helps them understand the process of patients and their families feel better.

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The number of alternative therapies with conventional treatments. Many patients choose other therapies, such as massage, acupuncture or electrical stimulation treatment to enhance their traditional practices, efforts to increase or supplement the healing process. Alternative therapies such as aromatherapy, meditation or yoga, a variety of, often added to the program to promote pain relief and relaxation.

Mesothelioma Treatment 
Although mesothelioma treatment is currently not available, many patients choose the treatment against cancer. Patients can also test the clinical trials, the latest, more treatment and medication, until they were released, and recommended the use of the public interest.Clinical trials is essential to finding a cure mesothelioma. Conclusion The study will help doctors find a cure for mesothelioma closer.

5-year survival rate of mesothelioma. Some people like doctors, Dr. David Sugarbaker actively seeking better treatment options for mesothelioma patients and has a key role in the treatment of search. The use of multi-modal approach, Dr. Sugarbaker has made significant progress mesothelioma, and increase the survival rate of patients with mesothelioma.

To learn that the drug is not available, can be daunting mesothelioma patients and their families, but the story of survivors below the surface and therefore are subject to cancer of hope.

Mesothelioma Surgery 
Surgical treatment of mesothelioma, including the three major categories - surgical diagnosis, treatment, surgery and palliative surgery. Some activities may be divided into multiple categories.


Process may be only the first and second stages of mesothelioma.
For example, the chest can be used as diagnostic procedures, and to provide assistance as a palliative treatment, symptoms. The only possible surgical treatment of cancer patients can be removed from a patient with mesothelioma.

However, for effective treatment operation, which is particularly important that mesothelioma is diagnosed early. Unfortunately, mesothelioma is usually not diagnosed until they reach a stage, the third or fourth, when an operation is impossible to realize.

Mesothelioma Chemotherapy 
Most of the form of intravenous injection of chemotherapy drugs such as cisplatin and pemetrexed. Chemotherapy for rapidly dividing cells that can kill the intervention occurred during the process of cell division also.


Chemotherapy is an effective treatment option, which is equipped with the unpleasant side effects. However, when rapidly dividing cancer cells, so that some types of healthy cells, so that some unpleasant side effects often associated with this form of treatment. While the older chemotherapy drugs seems a bit anti-mesothelioma of new chemotherapy drugs show great hope.

A relatively new form of chemotherapy as a thermo-chemotherapy in patients with peritoneal mesothelioma facilities.

After this treatment operations, including a heated chemotherapy drug trafficking abdominal cavity.

Mesothelioma Radiation 
Radiation therapy or "ionizing radiation" is used to destroy cancer cells, reducing the spread of cancer. Mesothelioma patients, radiation therapy is usually used along with surgery.

Operation of radiation are often used together.
However, in some cases, radiation therapy as a stand-alone relieve pain and other symptoms of mesothelioma. In any case, it provides little more than short-term protection radiation symptoms.

Mesothelioma patients can be through the following two types of radiation therapy, depending on whether they find the right candidates for the two procedures.

External radiation therapy is the traditional type of radiation, when the tumor re-dress of radiation to kill cancer cells. Brachytherapy is a relatively new form of radiation therapy. This is a small radioactive rod was implanted in tumors to provide a strong, concentrated dose of radiation and cancer, with little damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

Photodynamic Therapy 
Photodynamic therapy is a highly specialized and specific form of treatment is to the majority of skin cancer, lung cancer and some types of mesothelioma.

Photodynamic therapy using light to kill cancer cells.
However, this treatment is not usually appropriate for patients with metastatic carcinoma, but in fact, the most effective in patients with localized disease.

This type of treatment light to destroy cancer cells. In addition to photodynamic therapy, the patient's transfusion medicine cancer cells become very sensitive to certain types of light.

1 to 3 days after treatment, the patient exposure to sunlight, and cancer cells, and access to drugs, have been killed.

Gene Therapy 
Gene therapy of genetic material specific to the tumor cells more susceptible to chemotherapy.

"Suicide gene therapy is the most common form of gene therapy, as the basic form of purification of gene therapy is designed for the use of mesothelioma patients were referred to as" suicide gene therapy, because the cancer cells died of material produzieren.

When experiencing this type of gene therapy for treatment of patients with non-infectious virus changes the genetic material with them in the production, especially proteins.

Under this procedure, then the patient full of chemotherapy drugs designed to deal with toxic only cancer cells. This type of treatment there are some encouraging results in patients with mesothelioma, but still only about clinical trials.

Immunotherapy is the treatment of the patient's own immune system 'cheating' to kill cancer cells types. Health, the immune system to function properly and does not kill the cancer cells, because even if these unhealthy cells in the immune system can recognize them harmful.

There are two types of immunity: active and passive. Active immunotherapy of mesothelioma cancer cells from the patient, and then tested the vaccine in the lab. After the injection, the laboratory methods, conjugate vaccine, the patient, if successfully treated, the patient's immune system identified as hazardous substances, vaccines, so find the cancer, as well as harmful.

Passive immunotherapy totally different, it does not attempt to activate the patient's immune system. On the contrary, it contains substances such as cytokines (molecules, to help guide and regulate the immune system) and other substances, the immune response of cancer patients.

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