Treatments For Mesothelioma Cancer

    Mesothelioma cancer is currently treated with three treatments, depending on the location of the tumor, stage of disease and the patient's general health and age. These treatments are surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which are sometimes combined to fight the disease, if possible.

In surgery, one of the most common treatment for mesothelioma, the doctor removes a part of the lining of the chest or abdomen and some surrounding tissue. In a pneumonectomy, the doctor may also remove one lung when the patient has pleural mesothelioma or cancer of the pleura. In surgery, the doctor may also remove a portion of the diaphragm, the muscle below the lungs that helps breathing.

With these procedures, the specialist will try to excise tumourous tissue resulting from disease of cancer. These activities will reduce the respiratory capacity of the patient, the surgeon will assess the patient's ability to function after removal of the lung tissue, before performing a pneumonectomy.

Another way to fight Mesothelioma is chemotherapy or the use of anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. These drugs are administered to the patient through a procedure intravenously into a vein. Currently, experts are studying the effectiveness of intracavitary chemotherapy or the possibility of giving chemotherapy directly into the chest or abdomen.

Radiotherapy or radiotherapy is the use of high energy beams to destroy malignant cells and reduce tumors. It 'important to know that this medical procedure attacks the cancer cells in the treated area. There are two ways to give to this therapy. One, external radiation, where radiation from a machine, and others, the internal radiation, in which cancer cells are found after putting materials that produce radiation in the area.

Dr. Path to relieve the patient's pain is to use a needle or a tube to drain fluid that has accumulated in the chest or abdominal cavity through a procedure called thoracentesis, when it is in my chest, and paracentesis, when the removal of the womb. Specialists can also give drugs through a tube into his chest to prevent accumulation of liquids.