Possible Treatments For Peritoneal Mesothelioma

Friday, May 14, 2010

The Mesothelioma cancer that affects your abdominal
cavity is precisely known as the Peritoneal Mesothelioma cancer or Abdominal Mesothelioma cancer. Peritoneum is basically the envelope that covers your abdominal region including the intestines and the stomach. The



cancerous cells initially grow in this region and then affect the abdomen directly. The person suffering from the peritoneal cancer will never get well because no possible treatment can yet recover him completely. You cannot apprehend the death's approach. It may come anytime.

How does the asbestos dust get into the body?

According to the Medical Science there are two probably ways for the asbestos dust to get inside your abdominal outline of Mesothelium or peritoneum. The first process is related to ingestion that happens when a person works in a surrounding filled with asbestos dust for a long period. Also through the process of respiration, asbestos dust reaches your lungs and from that location through the lymph nodes the dust passes down to the abdominal lining.

Conventional treatment procedures

Surgical method of treatment is applied when tumors have grown around the peritoneum. Otherwise the radiation therapy is very helpful in removing the cancerous cells and keeping your body out of pain.

Another important treatment procedure is chemotherapy. Here the medicine called anti-carcinogen is directly inserted in the body with the help of the needle to kill the cancerous cells. But chemotherapy has an effect on the healthy cells too.

Modern treatment procedures

In the recent times a few other cancer treatments have been researched and they are being widely used even in treating Peritoneal Mesothelioma. The new therapeutic technique known as the Intraopeartive Photodynamic therapy has a promising side to heal the cancer patient quicker and with positive effects. The therapy is done through some special kind of drugs and by using light rays to destroy the cells affected by cancer.

Another such modern therapy to heal the cancer patient is popularly known as the Immunotherapy. Here the whole emphasis is put on the enhancing of the body's immunity so that the bosy can make its own resistance against the spreading of the cancer cells.

The third new treatment method is the gene therapy where a genetic reformation is being brought up to make corrections in those genes that are leading to the spread of Mesothelioma in the body.

All these novel treatment procedures are giving better results but still the ultimate curable treatment has to be researched.

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