Recent radical treatment of the disease include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and experimental treatments and drugs. New research reported, the limited success of current treatments for diseases.
Mesothelioma Research News shows that traditional means of treatment. or multi-drug chemotherapy and response rates of 20%. Radiotherapy, usually in combination with surgery or chemotherapy treatments can be used to relieve pain and facilitate tumor reduction, breathing. However, radiation is a cause for serious side effects.
Efforts to fight against mesothelioma
Mesothelioma can take between 10-60 years to develop after the inhalation of respirable asbestos fibers, but mesothelioma is progressing rapidly. Operations such as radical treatment of the disease have had limited success. Surgical tried very pleural pneumonectomy (EPP) and pleurectomy.
Treatment of messages that the EPP died more than 15% of patients shortly after surgery. EPP is the removal of the pleura, diaphragm, pericardium, phrenic nerve and lung cancer has struck everything and must be supported by chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Pleurectomy treatments include removal of the pleura, without the whole lung. These are the best therapies for patients with good lung function development, tend to collect the liquid. In combination with radiation therapy is pleurectomy in the news has reported 22 months of treatment in 50% survival and the survival of 24 months in 41% cases in the group of 27 patients with a subtype of epithelial disease.
Surgical treatment of the disease has not been demonstrated to have significant advantages over non-surgical procedures are limited. experimental drugs are based on the evaluation of the treatment of Onconase, lovastatin and the combination of endostatin and angiostatin are.
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