Treatment for Mesothelioma

Most of the internal organs are covered by a layer called mesothelium. Mesothelioma is the cancer of the mesothelium. This particular type of cancer is triggered by the asbestos exposure. Knowing the treatments on mesothelioma not only help you to treat the condition properly, but also you can help the sufferers.

Pleura is the lining mostly affected by mesothelioma. Peritoneum and pericardium are also affected by mesothelioma. Though mesothelioma affects both sexes men are more prone than women. The reason could the men are more exposed to asbestos than women. Mesothelioma affects people of all age groups but senior people are more prone than the younger ones. The reason could be drop in immunity as the persons gets older.

Mesothelioma Treatment :

The conventional therapies are not very successful for the mesothelioma treatment. The survival time for the patients is only 6 -12 months. The malignancy of the mesothelioma is affected by many factors. One such thing is the long latency period between disease development and exposure to the asbestos.

Surgery :

Surgery is one of the treatments on mesothelioma. The surgery can be performed alone or in combination with post and pre operative adjuvant therapy. But the results of the surgery attempted either alone or with post and pre operative therapy is found to be disappointing because the survival rate of the patients [five years] is less than 10%. The most common surgery is pleurectomy. Here the lining of the chest is completely removed. Extra pleural pnemorectomy is not very common.