Mesothelioma Basic Information

Hello there, nice to meet you again, I want to warn you about how dangerous effect of Asbestos and Cigarettes, Asbestos as a cause of lung cancer is often ignored because of smoking. So there is one reason for this is readily revealed in “The effect of smoking on the risk of lung cancer mortality for asbestos workers in Great Britain (1971-2005)”: among asbestos workers, smoking is more common than in the general population. 

If we knew that the treatment option of mesothelioma is just a few, this is the explanation about the Radiation treatment, one of treatment option of mesothelioma. Radiation is a High-energy x-rays, gamma rays, neutrons, and other sources of radiation are used to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Usually radiation coming from a machine outside the body is referred to as external radiation therapy or external-beam radiation therapy. Radiation may also come from some new materials that produce radiation called radioisotopes.

There is a few option about how exactly standart treatment for mesothelioma cancer. surely to understanding this option, there is currently no cure available for malignant mesothelioma, there are treatments available. So here is the types of treatments may include:

• Surgery
• Radiation
• Chemotherapy
• Intraoperative photodynamic therapy
• Immunotherapy
• Gene therapy