Listed below are 10 ways to treat disease mesothelioma :
1. Using Interleukin 2 is also known as biologic therapy
2. Aggressive treatments like radiation in combination with surgery for patients who are prescribed to control symptoms of mesothelioma palliative. Applying this process can threaten the lives of as traditional radiation therapy is detrimental to surrounding healthy tissue but ongoing research on the use of radiation therapy using implants or UV rays.
3. Correction of the sequence of the gene that causes cancer, known as Gene therapy. Replacement therapy and gene knockouts are two main types.
4. To remove all cancerous tissue, a surgical operation can be applied and is recommended if the diagnosis is made at an early stage. Sometimes, for example, palliative surgery thoracoscopy and pleurodesis, pleuroperitonial shunt, chest tube drainage and pleurodesis or pleurectomy can be advised by a doctor because these symptoms of mesothelioma rather than cure the disease.
5. During surgical removal of cancerous tissue, photosensitive drug activated by laser. This type of treatment known as photodynamic treatment.
6. Chemotherapy is another alternative to be applied and about 12-20% of patients respond to anti-cancer drugs that destroy cancer cells and prevent their spread. This may be as effective for cancer patients; chemotherapy is not considered a cure for mesothelioma but aims to prevent the spread of this disease. Before surgery, it helps to shrink the tumor, known as neoadjuvant therapy. Also, to revive the patient from pain and irritation by removing any residual tumor in the body after surgery. Doctors recommend premetrexed with cisplastin like now standard treatment for mesothelioma as this drug has shown positive results even with mesothelioma cannot be treated with surgery.
7. Use of cholesterol drugs such as Lovastatin sad
8. Use of biological response modifiers that help to stimulate the immune system to fight disease and are also known as immunotherapy. This kind of treatment helps regulate metabolic reactions that promote cancer growth, prevent the spread of cancer, block or reverse the process that led to the formation of cancer, cancer cell division and eventually change to improve immune system function.
9. For patients with intolerable accumulation of fluid and the acute discomfort that comes from it, preventing fluid accumulation carried out and this is done with the introduction of drugs into the cavity of the drug with the drying fluid in the chest or abdominal cavity.
10. The use of surgery followed by radiation and chemotherapy. It also called trimodal therapy. There is another type that focuses on the physical treatment of patients, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
The most frequent symptoms include 