Alternative Treatments For Mesothelioma Lung Cancer
Although the treatment of mesothelioma can not be complete, different ways of treatment were considered to help patients have more or prognosis relief. conventional treatment methods are considered such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, even if they are not very effective.Mesothelioma, caused by exposure to asbestos, is a rare kind of cancer that affects the cells around the lungs.
Its latency is more than 30 or 40 years before symptoms begin to appear. The membrane around the lungs in the name of the pleural cavity.
In an adult, there are two membranes that help you breathe it moves visceral pleura against the parietal pleura. In patients, the cancerous tissue due to deposits of asbestos fibers causes irritation of the cells with a sharp pain when breathing. This deposit causes the formation of cancerous cells.
Because the symptoms occur very late in the advanced stage. In addition, the prognosis is for a very short period of one or two years.
Although the treatment of mesothelioma can not be complete, different ways of treatment were considered to help patients have more or prognosis relief.
conventional treatment methods are considered such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, even if they are not very effective. According to statistics, as much as 3,000 cases were diagnosed each year with approximately 2,000 deaths commonly among workers who work in places where they are subject to exposure to asbestos.
Mesothelioma has no cure till date and the research is going on all over the world to find a suitable cure mesothelioma. The treatment for the cure of mesothelioma is based on several aspects, such as: cancer - stage of cancer • measurement
• the type of mesothelioma and location of the tumor,
• the size of the tumor
• places has spread to it, the structure of the tumor cells
• the patient's age
• the patient's health
The survival rate is seen to improve, if proper treatment is given to them. combined treatments that include two or more types of treatment administered to the patient such as surgery in combination with radiotherapy or chemotherapy with a consequent increase in life expectancy. Technology such as CT (Computer Topography) scans have also helped doctors to obtain three-dimensional images of the internal organs of the patient's body so as to be given chemotherapy or radiation therapy successfully.
Very recently, in January 2007, a new step forward in the treatment of mesothelioma has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This was the blood test MESOMARK examine the treatment in epithelial and bi-phasic malignant mesothelioma patients.
hypo mesothelioma and location of the tumor,
• the size of the tumor
• places has spread to it, the structure of the tumor cells
• the patient's age
• the patient's health
The survival rate is seen to improve, if proper treatment is given to them. combined treatments that include two or more types of treatment administered to the patient such as surgery in combination with radiotherapy or chemotherapy with a consequent increase in life expectancy. Technology such as CT (Computer Topography) scans have also helped doctors to obtain three-dimensional images of the internal organs of the patient's body so as to be given chemotherapy or radiation therapy successfully.
Very recently, in January 2007, a new step forward in the treatment of mesothelioma has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This was the blood test MESOMARK examine the treatment in epithelial and bi-phasic malignant mesothelioma patients.
A protein, soluble mesothelin-Related Peptide (SMRP), is issued by the mesothelioma cancer cells in the blood that can be measured in blood samples to ascertain the extent of the care of mesothelioma patients.
E 'was also approved by HUD, the Humanitarian Use Device, so that doctors can use this treatment for the mesothelioma, following some specific procedures. This form of testing is, however, not approved for health insurance for which it is considered expensive.
Another innovative technique that combines surgery expected to provide intracavity heated chemotherapy agents that have fewer side effects than chemotherapy. Here heated chemotherapeutic agents are provided directly to the area affected by the tumor during the process of a surgical procedure that leads to the killing of any tumor cells still present after the surgery.
Each case methothelioma care must be taken as a specific and administered treatment as there is a wrong or correct treatment for the disease. Diagonsis can be done through X-ray, MRI, CT scan or biopsy. the treatment of mesothelioma is seen as the best among people who undergo traditional treatments that includes surgery where the affected part is removed from the cancer, chemotherapy in case of use of drugs to combat the disease, as well as the high-dose radiotherapy , where radiation or x-rays are given to kill the cells affected by cancer.
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