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Mesothelioma
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Cure or Treatment to Mesothelioma
Clinical trails reveal some experimental treatments which are producing encouraging results.
Most of these treatments are not used in isolation. In many cases,
treatment may consist of a combination of therapies. For example,
surgery to remove as much of the cancer as possible may be followed by
radiotherapy or chemotherapy to remove residual cancer cells. This is
one of the most common treatment options for mesothelioma among those
who are candidates for surgery. |
Types of Treatment
Surgical treatments for mesothelioma include diagnostic surgery, curative surgery, and palliative surgery.
Chemotherapy involve the intravenous administration of drugs such as Alimta and Cisplatin. Chemotherapeutic drugs are targeted to kill cells that are rapidly dividing by interfering with processes that occur during cell division.
Radiation therapy,
or "ionizing radiation", is used to kill cancer cells and to limit the
spread of
Photodynamic therapy is a highly specialized and specific form of treatment that is most often used to treat skin cancers, some types of lung cancer, and pleural mesothelioma
Gene therapy involves using genetic material to specifically target cancer cells and make them more vulnerable to chemotherapy treatment.
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