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Malignant mesothelioma is a type of cancer usually caused by the inhalation or ingestion of asbestos fibers.
If it works on the chest, the doctor in the chest cavity with an instrument called a thoracoscope flights. If that is the abdomen, the doctor can look in the abdomen with an instrument called peritoneoscope. If a sample is taken from mesothelioma, diagnosed by a biopsy then proposed.
As with most other cancers, the outlook for mesothelioma patients is detected as early and how aggressively it is treated.
One of the challenges that usually takes around twenty to fifty years or more after exposure to asbestos for the symptoms of the disease has increased significantly. And it is often in an advanced stage.
Thus, mesothelioma victims often succumb to the disease within 1-2 years after it was diagnosed.
However, there is little hope for the victims of this life-threatening disease into new approaches for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma are tested. These treatments are often a combination of traditional treatments. Or they can also be something completely new.
Drug therapy
There are a number of drugs that his research on the offer promise in the treatment of malignant mesothelioma.
- L-NDDP (Platar ®) - this is a product that is administered intrapleuraly platinum. It is designed to resistance and toxicity, their utility is limited other platinum drugs like cisplatin to overcome ®. Two patients in remission in a recent study of this drug.
- Endostatin - this is a promising drug that has worked with angiostatin's ability to grow blood vessels of the tumor and not harm normal cells to destroy.
- A cholesterol drug called lovastatin ® was recently shown the potential, the cell growth was inhibited by mesothelioma cancer.
- The direct administration of interferon-gamma intrapleural added, also showed promise.
Photo Chemotherapy
In addition, photodynamic therapy, also called photo chemotherapy, using an intravenously administered photosensitizer, which selectively concentrated in tumor cells. If the tumor is then exposed to a special red laser light much of the tumor can be destroyed.
Immunotherapy
Other current approach to treating mesothelioma is immunotherapy. This tactic helps the immune system to fight mesothelioma.
Gene therapy
Gene therapy is promising. A study completed in September 1999 noted that the growth of the cells was prevented in mice with interferon interleukin mesothelioma.
If it works on the chest, the doctor in the chest cavity with an instrument called a thoracoscope flights. If that is the abdomen, the doctor can look in the abdomen with an instrument called peritoneoscope. If a sample is taken from mesothelioma, diagnosed by a biopsy then proposed.
As with most other cancers, the outlook for mesothelioma patients is detected as early and how aggressively it is treated.
One of the challenges that usually takes around twenty to fifty years or more after exposure to asbestos for the symptoms of the disease has increased significantly. And it is often in an advanced stage.
Thus, mesothelioma victims often succumb to the disease within 1-2 years after it was diagnosed.
However, there is little hope for the victims of this life-threatening disease into new approaches for the treatment of malignant mesothelioma are tested. These treatments are often a combination of traditional treatments. Or they can also be something completely new.
Drug therapy
There are a number of drugs that his research on the offer promise in the treatment of malignant mesothelioma.
- L-NDDP (Platar ®) - this is a product that is administered intrapleuraly platinum. It is designed to resistance and toxicity, their utility is limited other platinum drugs like cisplatin to overcome ®. Two patients in remission in a recent study of this drug.
- Endostatin - this is a promising drug that has worked with angiostatin's ability to grow blood vessels of the tumor and not harm normal cells to destroy.
- A cholesterol drug called lovastatin ® was recently shown the potential, the cell growth was inhibited by mesothelioma cancer.
- The direct administration of interferon-gamma intrapleural added, also showed promise.
Photo Chemotherapy
In addition, photodynamic therapy, also called photo chemotherapy, using an intravenously administered photosensitizer, which selectively concentrated in tumor cells. If the tumor is then exposed to a special red laser light much of the tumor can be destroyed.
Immunotherapy
Other current approach to treating mesothelioma is immunotherapy. This tactic helps the immune system to fight mesothelioma.
Gene therapy
Gene therapy is promising. A study completed in September 1999 noted that the growth of the cells was prevented in mice with interferon interleukin mesothelioma.
