The biggest reasons for the high death rates among mesothelioma sufferers is the fact that the disease is extremely aggressive but also it shows no real outward signs until it gets into the later stages. Because mesothelioma symptoms don’t outwardly appear for up to fifty years, diagnosis didn’t happen until the disease was already to […]
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Mesothelioma can be an extremely difficult strain of cancer to treat. It is resistant to most know treatments. It progresses quickly in its spread throughout the body, possibly because of its developmental proximity to the bloodstream, and it is frequently not diagnosed until it is in its later stages. This last is due to a
A diagnosis of Mesothelioma can be a very frightening thing, but one of the first things that most people want to know once they get over the initial shock is what kinds of treatment options they have. They intend to fight their disease, rather than just let it take them over, and that’s a great
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Once mesothelioma has progressed to its final stages, physicians generally shift their treatment plans from curative to palliative. In some ways, this is not much of a shift. Most palliative procedures have some sort of curative component to them, but mesothelioma is an incurable cancer and once it reaches stage four it is ineligible for
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The difficulty of treating mesothelioma is well known. Currently, the top treatments are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, but even these cannot cure the disease. In an effort to find more effective treatments, scientists and researchers are exploring many potential avenues. One of the most interesting of a number of new and alternative treatments being
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Treatments are available for every type of mesothelioma, though, patients may respond in different ways to the same treatments. The stage that the cancer is at indicates its maturity level, as well as the patient’s general health. This has to be taken into consideration when the doctor develops a plan for treatment. Chemotherapy and radiation
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Getting a cancer diagnosis is never good news. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer with only 2,000- 3,000 new cases diagnosed in the US each year and most cases can be traced to occupational asbestos exposure. Mesothelioma is considered incurable, but in recent years doctors have learned how to better treat and diagnose this particular cancer.
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Individuals that experience symptoms associated with occupational diseases should seek medical advice as soon as they notice symptoms. The sooner these types of diseases are diagnosed and treated the better the prognosis is for patients. There are doctors who specialize in occupational medicine but they are very rare. Of the 800,000 physicians in the United
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Once a cancer patient’s treatments have ended, there is still a chance that he or she can experience side effects. Some side effects can continue after treatment or surface months or years after treatment. There is not a lot of concrete information that is known about cancer treatment side effects, but they can vary by
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Chemotherapy drug treatment can cause a patient to experience rashes on the back, chest, arms, neck or face that may look like a rosacea or acne type condition. A patient usually experiences rash side effects that are mild to moderate. Rash side effects do come with an infection risk factor. In some cases if the
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