Symptoms of Malignant Mesothelioma Cancer
Although these treatments are most often found, you can find other treatment options are now increasing in popularity. Some of these treatment options is gene therapy, immuno therapy, and photodynamic therapy.
The different surgical procedures performed on patients with malignant mesothelioma there are 3 types of palliative surgical procedures, diagnostic surgical procedures, curative surgical procedure. Palliative Surgery intended to reduce symptoms and eliminate all cancer cells. However, this type of surgery is not very advisable.
The goal of surgery is to remove as much as possible curative mesothelioma cancer, and expect this type of therapy can be fully healed. Usually curative surgery followed by chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Differences pleural mesothelioma and peritoneal mesothelioma
Diagnostic surgical approach is intended to do with finding the fact that cancer is present or not in patients. This procedure is an addition that can help identify where the location of the cancer, if found, the diagnosis of mesothelioma usually remains in the form of non-invasive.
Chemotherapy drugs are given intravenously with the aim of destroying cancerous tissue. Mesothelioma cancer cells are growing very fast and delivery of chemotherapy would be more effective if given promptly.
Radiation therapy is done by comparing drug therapy, which aims to destroy the cancerous tissue and limit the spread of cancer cells much as possible. This method is also called "ionizing radiation" and is usually used after surgery. The mechanism of action similar to palliative care that is also aimed to eliminate the pain caused by the disease.
Mesothelioma Prognosis
Photodynamic therapy is usually used if the cancer is malignant mesothelioma is still small and less effective for metastatic cancer. Photodynamic therapy requiring intravenous drug therapy in cancer cells will be killed as a result of certain vulnerable.
The gene treatment is still experimental and requires people to be infected by a virus that will make genetic changes. These viruses enter the mesothelioma cancer cells that cause the production of proteins. Some time after the virus infects people who have changed genetically, will be given a chemotherapy drug that does not damage normal cells, but was able to kill cancer cells.
Immuno therapy is given transform and the immune system of individuals trying to destroy cancer cells. With immuno therapy active individuals, malignant mesothelioma cells to be removed which is then used to produce vaccines. The person who injected the vaccine, will have an immune system capable of recognizing "malignant mesothelioma cell vaccine" as a hazardous substance, so the presence of the cancer cell itself is known as hazardous substances.