MESOTHELIOMA

The options of treatment of mesothelioma depend on many internal factors like: stage, place, and the age and desires of the patient. The external factors important to consider include the level of experiment of the oncologist with cases of mesothelioma and if a rural inhabitant should be transferred to more a big city for the aggressive treatment or the palliative care.

The rate of survival of the patients is given to take place up to one year; while some principal centers of cancer brought back the life expectancy after diagnosis to be not less than five years additional.

Sifting
The tests of formation image make it possible doctors to see an image of the site of cancer. These tests could include x-rays, sweepings of CT (calculated tomography), or MRI (formation image of magnetic resonance).

New instrument of sifting: The test of Mesomark
The �Food and Drug Administration� has right approval (January 2007) the world the 'test tube experiment of S first for the mesothelioma. The test of analysis of Mesomark, developed by Fujirebio Diagnostics is managed with the patients diagnosed with the two-phase or epithelioid mesothelioma by a simple analysis of blood. The test measures the proteins in blood which reflect changes of the patient 'volume of tumour of S, of a key factor for the patient statute of monitoring and answer to the therapies.

Traditional types of treatment

Surgery, displacement of the whole lung and part of the lining of trunk, the diaphragm and part of the bag surrounding the heart.

Thoracoscopy is the insertion of an endoscope which is a small narrow tube, containing a tiny cameria in the pleural cavity to look at the tumour directly. The pathologist carry out a biopsy to gather a fabric. Often, the chemical pleurodesis (draining the fluid in intrapleural space), can make during the same process.

Mediastinoscopy, another type of surgical incision is sometimes employed to present the extent of the disease when increased nodes are seen using techniques of formation image.

Laproscopy is employed in patients of mesothelioma when the techniques of formation image suggest that the tumour penetrated by the diaphragm. This information is impo