Mesothelioma Treatments:-

Stritctly speeking that there is no proper treatment for "Malignant Mesothelioma".chemotherapy and radiant therapy these two treatments are mostly available for surgary.
the course of treatment will depend on a number of factors including location of the disease,the age of the disease,stage of disease,our age,overall health and our preferences.

Mesothelioma Treatment Types:-

As in all forms of cancer treatment, there are traditional modalities for the treatment of mesothelioma, as well as experimental, non-traditional options.

Traditional Mesothelioma Treatment Options:-

1>surgery[physical removal of the cancer]

2>Chemotherapy [suing drugs to fight the cancer]

3>Radiation therapy[using high-dose of x-rays to kill cancer cells]which is mostly used in present day life.

4>Trimodality therapy,in which all theree of these modalities are used, is considered the most effective,aggressive,approach.

Non-Traditional Mesothelioma Treatment Options:-

1>photodynamic therapy

2>Gene therapy

3>Immunotherapy

Mesothelioma Treatments

Mesothelioma Treatment Options: Chemotherapy:-

Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill this cancer cells and may be used as the treatment to mesothelioma, or it may be used as part of a multi-modal approach. Chemotherapy is referred to as systemic treatment because the drug is introduced into the patient’s bloodstream and travels throughout the body killing cancer cells. The drugs may be in pill form, or injected into the body through a needle.

In addition to killing cancer cells, chemotherapy drugs work to restrict the uncontrolled spread of abnormal cancer cells - preventing them from dividing and multiplying.

Chemotherapy is not considered a “curative” approach for the treatment of mesothelioma and instead focuses on shrinking existing tumors (usually prior to surgery - neoadjuvant therapy), controlling the spread of the cancerous cells, and removing residual cancer cells following surgery (adjuvant therapy).

To effectively treat mesothelioma, more than one drug may be used in chemotherapy. Depending on the drugs, the amount taken and the treatment period, there may be side effects. Historically, doxorubicin has been the most widely used single chemotherapy drug. Other newer drugs, including gemcitabine, cisplatin, carboplatin, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide, ifosfamide, vinorelbine, paclitaxel, and methotrexate, now are often preferred and are usually given in different combinations.