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A Brief Introduction To The Cancer Mesothelioma
Monday, July 12th, 2010In this article, I want to give a brief introduction to the disease mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that can be malignant or benign, malignant type of extremely dangerous and can be deadly in many cases. Scientists can classify the type of mesothelioma cancer according to tumor site as follows.
Types of Pleural – [...]
Prognosis Mesothelioma
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Prognosis Mesothelioma – In the case of mesothelioma, the prognosis is not as accurate as with other serious diseases is lower. This is because the prognosis is usually dependent on the stage where the disease is detected. Mesothelioma is usually detected quite late in patients, making it difficult to state the percentage of cure or [...]
Clinical Trials For Mesothelioma Victims
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The purpose of clinical trials is to involve patients in the discovery of new and better treatments for their diseases. Various clinical trials have different objectives which may include testing of new drugs, by comparing various ways of treating a disease or test several techniques to prevent cancer. Clinical trials are divided into three phases. [...]
Chemotheraphy Treatment For Mesothelioma Victims
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Chemotherapy involves using anticancer drugs that act by preventing cancer cells from multiplying. In most cases, combinations of drugs are used to increase efficiency. Chemotherapy can be used aggressively to reduce the tumor or palliative to relieve symptoms such as breathlessness or pain. Chemotherapy can be administered by injection into a vein or muscle, ingestion, [...]
Mesothelioma Stages
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010Knowing the stages of your mesothelioma will be a factor that will help your doctor formulate a treatment plan. The classification most definitive and most widely used system is the International Classification for TGM diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma, also called the International System group concerned with mesothelioma (International Mesothelioma Interest Group System). This system takes [...]
Kind Of Mesothelioma Diagnosis
Saturday, June 19th, 2010A diagnosis of mesothelioma is often obtained from a careful evaluation of clinical and radiological findings, in addition to a tissue biopsy confirmation. Some of the tests that your specialist may recommend and their diagnostic value and evaluation of mesothelioma are presented below.
Computed Tomography (CT)
CT scans are able to reveal a pleural effusion, and [...]
Specific Symptoms of Mesothelioma
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Symptoms
Early symptoms of mesotheliomas are non-specific and may delay diagnosis. In general, breathlessness, chest pain and cough are common symptoms of pleural mesothelioma, but in some cases they may not be sufficiently serious to cause the patient to a medical consultation. Some patients complain of pain in the scapula and lower back. These symptoms [...]
Chemotherapy Treatments
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Chemotherapy involves the use of anti-cancer drugs that act by preventing cell division of cancer cells. In most cases, drug combinations are used to increase the effectiveness. Chemotherapy may be used aggressively to shrink the tumor, or palliative, to relieve symptoms such as shortness of breath or pain. The chemotherapy can be administered by injection [...]
Symptomatic of Lung Mesothelioma
Monday, May 24th, 2010Stage 2, 3 and 4:
Symptomatic treatment including drainage of effusions, chest tube pleurodesis, or thoracoscopic pleurodesis.
Palliative surgical resection in selected patients.
Palliative radiotherapy.
Chemotherapy with a single agent. It has been reported partial response with doxorubicin, epirubicin, mitomycin, cyclophosphamide, cisplatin, carboplatin and ifosfamide.
Combination chemotherapy (under clinical evaluation).
Clinical trials of multiple modalities.
Intracavitary therapy. It is reported that intrapleural [...]
Treatment of Lung Mesothelioma
Friday, May 14th, 2010Surgery.
Used three types of surgery in the treatment of mesoepitelioma. Diagnostic surgery to obtain a sample for biopsy is performed by thoracoscopy (*), by laparoscopy or surgery or pleural mediatinoscopia open. Secondly, palliative surgery include partial pleurectomy pleurodesis, thoracoscopy with pleurodesis and more rarely, pleuroperitoneal shunt. The third is curative surgery involving extrapleural pneumonectomy in [...]
