Several New Treatments available for Mesothelioma

Scientists are working very to find new treatments for mesothelioma patients. Several treatments are found and tested daily. The most commonly used treatments to cure mesothelioma cancer are radiation, surgery and chemotherapy. Also, they keep on trying the combination of any of these treatments in order to identify the most accurate one. Following is a list of such treatments that are being tried and tested for now.

One new treatment that has been tested is immunotherapy. In this therapy, we use the immune system of the patient to fight the mesothelioma. It makes the use of substances that are found in the immune system of the patient to control the growth of the tumor.

Interferon and interleukin-2 are the substances that have been used in the laboratory studies. These substances have found to be effective in laboratory studies but the immunotherapy has not been effective when these substances are used with malignant mesothelioma and their clinical trials.

Heat therapy is also one of the useful treatments of mesothelioma. In this therapy, the chemotherapy agents are heated before they are injected. Due to this heating of chemotherapy agents or the chemicals before injection, more number of tumor cell are killed. This new useful treatment for mesothelioma patient is also referred to as chemo hyperthermia.

One new evolving therapy is the gene therapy. Some of the scientists believe that it is going to be a most vital therapy in the near future. It involves manipulating the genes that are related to the tumor and contains the virus such as common cold. By knowing the gene involved, we can then make use of antiviral drugs or your own immune system for destroying the cells. Researches and studies are being continued on this therapy while this therapy is found to be effective for the early stages of malignant mesothelioma and some other types of tumor.

Some other therapies are also available for treating the patients of mesothelioma one of which is the Photodynamic Therapy. In this therapy, we inject the light sensitive molecules in the pleural space before surgery. After it, when the surgery is done, light is directly put on the molecules that will kill the tumor cells immediately. This treatment has not proved to be very effective but studies are still continued in order to improve the survival of the patient using this treatment.

Such types of several new experiments are tried daily in the laboratories and many of the patients keep on trying the clinical trials. Clinical trials refer to the experiments that are carried out daily in order to evolve some new drugs or devices essential for the mesothelioma treatment. Some instances of the clinical trials have proved to be useful. These clinical trials are carried out by the scientists and physicians who have proper and advanced knowledge about the treatments. Sometimes such clinical trials give favorable results and help in improving the condition of the patient suffering from mesothelioma.