Mesothelioma is touted as deadly because most of the cases
diagnosed with advanced stage, doctors have little
To offer consolation since. Still doctors try to do their best
Patients with severe pain relieving mesothelioma
Using cutting-edge treatments.
Surgery
Before considering surgery as one of the proposals
Treatment of the malignant tumor, the health of patients
should be carefully examined. The tests aremade for
to examine whether the cancer to other parts of spreading
Body or not. The evaluation of the patient's lungs and heart
Functions is done. In the first case, a mesothelioma
Operation can not be executed. Both the heart and lungs are
are correct functioning of the state is scheduled for surgery.
The operation is in two types: aggressive surgery (long-term
Control) and palliative procedures (relief of symptoms).
If we define eachseparated.
Aggressive surgery
Aggressive surgery involves the removal of the lung, pleura,
the diaphragm and the pericardium through a process that
known as extra pleural pneumonectomy. Intention
follow this method is to remove as much that,
Tumor as possible. It is indeed a method in bold
Elimination of the disease, hence the name "Aggressive
surgery ".
This procedure is extremely complex and involves high
Risk.This is due to the fact that it is possible
Probability of death for the same within a month. Extra
Pleural pneumonectomy is therefore normally performed on
younger patients who are in good health and in
Able to tolerate surgery.
Palliative procedures
Palliative procedures are usually performed when the cancer
is in its extended form. These procedures are carried out
Control the symptoms of mesothelioma rather than curethem.
Pleurectomy (also decortication) is the process
to surgically remove the pleura. This method reduces the pain
caused by the tumor mass and may also prevent l '
Recurrence of pleural effusion (collection of fluid
causes great difficulty in breathing). For patients
peritoneal mesothelioma, complete surgical removal of the
the entire tumor is not entirely possible. In this case,
Operation aims to relieve symptoms, such asAscites
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a method used the drug for the treatment of
Mesothelioma. It 'was noted that this method
a partial success. This is because the patient recovers
partly related to the use of drugs or a combination of drugs (In fact,
increases the effectiveness of this method, if combined
Drugs are used at the same time.) Some of these combinations
proved and to develop new drugs for
treatmentthis type of cancer.
Radiotherapy
In this method, the tumor is killed with doses of radiation.
However, using this procedure, the killing of tumor
Cells is very difficult. The reason is that
It 'hard to find, in particular, the malignant cells.
The heart, lungs and other organs may surround --
, and are at risk of possible damage by
Dose of radiation. However, low doses can be
reductionthe disease to some extent.
Dual therapy
Both chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used in combination
after the execution of the operation. Both take
Destroy any cancer cells that destroy the remaining were not removed from
Surgery and may also help relieve the
Disease like chest pain.
The methods of treatment that are described above, are directed
Ways of treating a person suffering from mesothelioma.
Yet doctors and researchersalways looking
new ways to treat mesothelioma. The need for
The development of alternative methods for the treatment of patients with
mesothelioma arises because of the complex nature of the
different types of cancer, and because patients are
differently to different types of medical care.
Some of them are the following:
Immunoagumentive therapy (IAT)
The goal of IAT is to strengthen the body's defenses
System. The same is done byBalancing four different
Proteins in the blood.
Intraoperative photodynamic therapy (IPT)
This type of treatment is used to treat early
Mesothelioma in the chest. IPT uses special drugs and
Light to kill cancer cells during surgery. A drug that makes
The tumor cells more sensitive to light is injected into a vein
few days before surgery. During surgery, a special light
is used to detect cancer.
Gene
Thisis a unique method in which researchers are both
to improve the body's natural ability to fight against the
Diseases, or alternatively, the tumor cells more
susceptible to other forms of therapy.
