Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma therapies include traditional surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. You should keep in mind that if you choose one course of action for mesothelioma treatment, you can prevent other courses. Should consider all your options as soon as possible.
Surgery

Depending on the initial stage of mesothelioma, surgery can be used to remove the cancer and some surrounding tissue. Not often, however, appropriate operation and the patient may be minimally invasive procedures but to alleviate symptoms. A thoracentesis, when fluid in the fund in use by the fund needle cavity, can be done to make patients more comfortable. Sometimes talc or antibiotic can be injected in the cavity fund to try to prevent fluid back. Techniques are successful in control of the fluid, at least temporarily, in as many as 90% of patients. Because pleural fluid can compress the lung and cause shortness of breath, and the procedures can help patients breathe more easily, however, they do not cure the cancer. In the case of mesothelioma peritoneal, a needle can be inserted into the abdomen to drain the fluid. Similarly, with needle insertion pericardium (SAC around the heart) can drain pericardial fluid and help alleviate circulatory problems. However, the draining fluid may result in difficulties. Sometimes the spread of cancer cells along the needle path, and can form tumor nodule under the skin of the area.

Surgery for mesothelioma can do one of two reasons: for palliation (relief of pain and discomfort caused by the tumor), or a cure. Palliative surgery is usually done in cases where the tumor has already extended beyond the mesothelium and is difficult to remove completely, or in cases where the patient is too ill tolerate more extensive operation. Curative surgery is available when the patient in good health otherwise, and the tumor is thought to localization and can be removed completely. Unfortunately, there is microscopic spread of cancer cells in the chest wall and diaphragm even when asked spread can not detect such tests routinely. Therefore, given the extent of operations and the very limited success, the precise role of mháinliacht in treating mesothelioma is often debated.

There are two types of operations that may be available for patients with mesothelioma pleural: pleurectomy / decortication and pneumonectomy extrapleural. Pleurectomy / decortication is usually palliative (relieves symptoms without curing the cancer) operation in cases where the tumor can not be fully removed. It involves removing the pleura, where most of the tumor is located. It is effective in controlling effusions (fluid accumulation) and reduce the pain caused by cancer.

Pneumonectomy operation Extrapleural is much more comprehensive and is often used in mesothelioma cases localization. It is difficult to operate and made one technical specialist Surgeons in large medical centers. It involves removing the pleura, diaphragm, pericardium, and the whole lung on the side of the tumor. Must the patient be in good overall health with no other serious illnesses in order to tolerate the large operation. The proposed action is to remove all or most of the cancer and some surrounding tissues as well.

Surgical treatment of mesothelioma is peritoneal often either to help alleviate symptoms or to try to remove the tumor from the abdomen wall and other digestive organs. As with mesothelioma pleural, the tumors are often too extensive to remove completely. You can make operations on mesothelioma from the pericardium (the SAC around the heart).

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Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. Relations beam radiation therapy uses radiation delivered from outside the company that focused on the cancer. This is the type of radiation therapy often used to treat mesothelioma. The treatments are available as well in diagnostic x-ray but for a longer period. Brachytherapy involves placing radioactive material in the fund directly into the abdomen or on the site of the mesothelioma. Radiation therapy is sometimes used as the most mesothelioma treatment in some patients, especially those whose general health was too poor to make them mháinliacht. Adjuvant radiation therapy can be used in conjunction with surgery to kill small deposits of cancer that can not see and had during surgery. Palliative radiation therapy can also be used to ease the symptoms of mesothelioma such as shortness of breath, pain, bleeding, and the difficulty shlogtha.

Side effects may include radiation therapy, fatigue and mild skin changes that resemble a sunburn. Often the side effects are temporary. Radiation may also make the side effects of chemotherapy worse. Basket radiation therapy may cause lung damage and lead to breathing difficulties and shortness of breath. Abdominal radiation therapy may cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. If you are one of the side effects of radiation therapy, talk with your doctor since there are ways to help control the symptoms.

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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the use of drugs for cancer treatment. The drug can be swallowed in pill form or can be injected with a needle in a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy is a systematic therapy. This means that the drug enters the bloodstream and circulates throughout the body (through the system as a whole) to achieve and the deletion of cancer cells.

In mesothelioma treatment, the drug could also be given intrapleurally (directly into the cavity fund), or intraperitoneally (into the abdominal cavity). Depending on the type and stage of mesothelioma, chemotherapy can be given as the primary (main) treatment or as an additional adjuvant () to surgery.

Some anticancer drugs used to treat mesothelioma. The drug is most effective when given alone doxorubicin (Adriamycin). Other drugs can be given include cisplatin and methotrexate itself. The anticancer drugs are often combined to try to increase their effectiveness. Among the combinations of drugs used in treatment of mesothelioma Cyclophosphamide methotrexate and vincristine; Alimta ® and cisplatin, vinblastine and mitomycin; cisplatin and doxorubicin, and doxorubicin, (or ifosfamide) and cisplatin. Other drugs such as paclitaxel and irinotecan is currently being studied to determine their effectiveness mesothelioma treatment.

Chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells but also damage some normal cells. Therefore, careful attention must be given to avoid or minimize side effects, which depend on the particular drug, the amount taken, and length of treatment. Temporary side effects may include nausea and vomiting, appetite loss, hair loss, and mouth sores. Because chemotherapy can damage the blood-producing cells in the bone marrow, patients may be low blood cell counts. This can result in increased risk of infection (due to lack of white blood cells), bleeding or bruising or injury after a small decline (due to lack of blood platelets), and fatigue or shortness of breath (due to red blood low cell count).

Thiachóga side effects as soon as treatment stopped. There are remedies for many of the temporary side effects of chemotherapy. For example, antiemetic drugs can be given to prevent or reduce nausea and vomiting. If you have any side effects, be sure to talk with your doctor.