Several experimental therapy currently being conducted for treatment of mesothelioma cancer, one of the most promising is a technique called Photodynamic Therapy (PDT).
Mesothelioma or asbestos cancer usually called, is a very aggressive cancer and deadly, this disease affects the lining the chest (pleural mesothelioma) and abdomen (peritoneal mesothelioma), generally less responsive to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. A number of other treatments, such as gene therapy, alternative approaches immunoterapi and can give hope to cancer patients mesotelioma.
Photodynamic therapy is one type of mesothelioma treatment is very promising future. This method combines three separate elements of nontoxic, photosensitizing compound, oxygen and visible light. Photodynamic therapy targeting cancer cells mesothelioma. Usually given during or after surgery to remove the remaining parts of the tumor.
Unlike the case with chemotherapy and radiation, which tends to have a burning effect on the patient’s body, Photodynamic Therapy provides a clear advantage that he did not kill the cells, healthy non-cancerous cells. This means that the side effects of cancer treatment can be reduced and mesotelioma course mesothelioma prognosis would be better.
In America, Photodynamic Therapy is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) an entity for some types of cancer, although its use to treat mesothelioma are still in experimental stages.
There are about 3000 new cases of mesothelioma cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, and around the world, and there are 20,000 people have died from this disease every year. Almost all of the diagnosis of mesothelioma associated with contact with asbestos, a mineral material once incorporated into a variety of commercial products that can make fire-resistant (Fireproof). Although the use of asbestos peaked in the 1970s, mesothelioma has a latent period is very long to be diagnosed and therefore can not be diagnosed only in one year, or even decades after the contact.
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