Treatment of mesothelioma depends on the stage, age, and location of the cancer patient's life and spirit. The most important factor to consider is the survival rate of patients that can be determined up to one year ahead, while several leading cancer centers say the level of the patient's life could be five years later. There are several tests that must be passed by mesothelioma patients is:
Test screening
With this imaging test allows doctors to view images from the stage of cancer. Includes x-rays, CT scans, or MRI.
Test a simple blood test.
The test measures a protein in blood that reflect the volume of tumor in the patient's body, which is a key factor to monitor patient status and response to therapy.
Treatment such as surgery, eliminating the fluid around the lungs and partially lining the chest, diaphragm and part of the sac around the heart.
Treatment of mesothelioma are thoracoscopy namely insertion of an endoscope which is a small narrow tube, containing Cameria into the pleural cavity tumor patients to see first hand.
Treatment of the pathologist is to do a biopsy to collect tissues. Treatment with chemical pleurodesis (drying fluid in the intrapleural space) is sometimes also possible.
Treatment mediastinoscopy is another type of surgical incision.
Treatment using laproscopy used by mesothelioma patients when imaging technique showed that the tumor has penetrated through the diaphragm.
Treatment of radiation (using high-dose X-ray or high-energy rays to kill cancer cells.
Using radiation treatment - although mesothelioma tumors are highly resistant to radiotherapy, this treatment is sometimes used to relieve symptoms arising from tumor growth.
Treatment of radiotherapy is generally applied to prevent the growth of tumor along the track in the chest wall lining.
Treatment of chemotherapy - used to stop cancer cells grow and divide uncontrollably.
Treatment with Immunotherapy: namely preheated between (40 and 48 ° C) chemotherapeutic agent for 60 to 120 minutes.
Several treatment procedures including:
Palliative Procedures
Pleuroperitoneal shunt procedure: a procedure where a catheter placed under the skin of the pleura into the peritoneal cavity, but this procedure causes damage to the abdominal wall.
Pleurectomy Procedures performed when surgery is not an option. This procedure does not effectively remove all the tumor. Many consider as the most effective way in overcoming the control of pleural effusions.
Curative Procedure.
Treatment pleurectomy / Decortication is usually performed in patients with early-stage disease pleural mesothelioma is to remove all the tumor.
Extrapleural pneumonectomy is the surgical treatment of lung in the pericardium, part of the diaphragm and part of the parietal pleura. Combine with traditional chemotherapy and / or radiation, gene therapy, immunotherapy or photodynamic therapy for malignant mesothelioma.
Treatment Cytoreductive surgery removes the tumor seen in the peritoneal cavity. Cancer cells remaining treated by intra-peritoneal Hyperthermic (heated) Chemotherapy (IPHC) and then delivered to the abdominal cavity.
Experimental Therapy
Namely by injecting a virus that has been modified in the laboratory. The virus is injected into the pleura in the chest, where mesothelioma develops in an attempt to kill cancer cells.
Doctors to this day continue to do research for this mesothelioma treatment.
But after testing, may be found that the treatments do not work, or who has a bad side.
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