Thursday, March 4, 2010

Mesothelioma Treatments


Surgery
The treatment options of mesothelioma are surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. As with other forms of cancer, staging is important to clarify the therapeutic strategy.

THE CONTEXT

It's a little cancer or not surgery because it is a tumor that involves the whole pleura. The incision is then a large thoracotomy (open chest) posterolateral spending most often by the 6th intercostal space with extension possibility for total or partial resection of a rib.

TECHNIQUES

The pneumectomie-decortication

Only some cases may benefit from surgery by an experienced team of thoracic surgeons. Outside case is rarely an option Standard ..

The extended pleurectomy-decortication

It includes a pneumonectomy, a pleurectomy, pericardiectomy and resection of a hemidiaphragm. It may be supplemented by a photodynamic therapy to destroy any malignant cells persist.
It is an option for mesothelioma stage I, II and III, but N <2>

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