Mesothelioma Treatment

Mesothelioma treatment that often uses:

• Traditional mesothelioma treatments
  Which is use the same treatments to treat most other cancer, includes:
• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy (radiotherapy) 
• New methods of mesothelioma treatments
  As its name, it use new treatment methods that have been research and developed, includes:
• Development of new chemotherapy agents
• Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Photodynamic therapy (PDT)
• Immunotherapy
• Gene therapy
• Other Treatment:
• Multimodality Therapy
• Heated Intraoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

As with other cancerous diseases, the progression of mesothelioma is typically broken into stages, with the treatment options based on the stage of the disease.


However, mesothelioma treatment still depends on the prognosis. The prognosis for malignant mesothelioma remains disappointing, although there have been some modest improvements in prognosis from newer chemotherapies and multimodality treatments. Treatment of malignant mesothelioma at earlier stages has a better prognosis, but cures are exceedingly rare. Clinical behavior of the malignancy is affected by several factors including the continuous mesothelial surface of the pleural cavity which favors local metastasis via exfoliated cells, invasion to underlying tissue and other organs within the pleural cavity, and the extremely long latency period between asbestos exposure and development of the disease. The histological subtype and the patient's age and health status also help predict prognosis.

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