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Mesothelioma:
Treatments for Mesothelioma Cancer |
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by:Hector Milla |
Mesothelioma cancer is currently treated
through three treatments, depending on the cancer location, the disease
stage, and the patient's general health and age. These treatments are
surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which sometimes are
combined to fight the disease in so far as possible.
In a surgery, one of the most common treatments for mesothelioma, the
doctor removes part of the lining of the abdomen or the chest and some
tissue around it. In a pneumonectomy, the doctor may also remove one
lung when the patient has pleural mesothelioma or cancer of the pleura.
In other surgical procedure, the doctor may also remove part of the
diaphragm, the muscle below the lungs that helps with breathing.
Through these procedures, the medical specialist shall try to excise
tumourous tissue arising from this cancer disease. As these operations
will reduce the patient's respiratory capacity, the surgeon will
evaluate the patient's ability to function after a lung tissue removal,
before performing a pneumonectomy.
Another method to fight Mesothelioma is chemotherapy or the use of
anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. These drugs
are given to the patient by an intravenous procedure, an injection into
a vein. Currently, experts are studying the effectiveness of
intracavitary chemotherapy or the possibility of giving chemotherapy
straight to the chest or abdomen.
Radiotherapy or radiation therapy is the use of high-energy rays to
destroy malignant cells and shrink tumors. It is important to know that
this medical procedure attacks the cancer cells only in the treated
area. There are two ways of giving this therapy. One, external
radiation, in which the radiation comes from a machine, and other,
internal radiation, where the cancer cells are found after putting
materials that produce radiation into the affected area.
Doctor's way to relieve patient's pain is to use a needle or a thin
tube to drain fluid that has built up in the abdominal or chest
cavities through a procedure called thoracentesis, when it is from the
chest, and paracentesis, when the removal is from the abdomen. The
specialists may also give the drugs through a tube in the chest to
prevent the accumulation of more liquid.
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