Mesothelioma treatment options

Dissection is often the choice when mesothelioma is diagnosed early, as phase I and phase II mesothelioma. In many cases, this means pleurectomy with pleural mesothelioma, pleura process in which all deleted. In cases where the pleural effusion was serious, both pleural surface in a process called pleurodesis can be integrated, it is generally palliative. Many procedures a piece lung. An extrapleural pneumonectomy removes part of the lung, the diaphragm, part of the pericardium and the parietal pleura, which is the tissue of the chest wall.

Surgery with peritoneal mesothelioma, the same model, except that the removal of adjacent organs is not always such an election with a pneumonectomy. Operations on the pericardium is often the case in an emergency because it causes membrane swelling and mesothelioma suppress harmful impact on the four chambers of the heart.

The widespread use of chemotherapy in the treatment of mesothelioma, in the last few years, almost always performed in combination with radiation therapy program. Most chemotherapeutic agents proved to be very effective on mesothelioma, there are two, previously approved by the FDA for the treatment of mesothelioma. Researchers are constantly looking for innovative ways to attack the cells of the malignant mesothelioma, and avoiding damage to healthy cells of the mesothelium membrane. Chemotherapy are often used together, especially if the treatment for mesothelioma biphasic - a form of the disease, which has two types of malignant cells. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy known as multimodal therapy.

More recently, there was some use of radiation therapy during the operation itself was. Rather than target the cancer cells with radioactive ions directly on the network in cases when the patient on the operating table. The chemotherapy drugs were equal, a more robust treatment, which can provide are delivered with intravenous delivery, such a procedure is heated intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy using the drug named is heated in the operating of peritoneal mesothelioma.

Other options are, immunotherapy, and the concept of other experiments such as gene therapy. These concepts are the creative efforts to attack the cancer cells with new and innovative ways. During the stay in a state of semen, I hope to achieve research results and experiments continue.