Getting diagnosed with mesothelioma is regarded as the day life stopped for the diagnosed patient. Following the diagnose is a thorough discussion with an oncologist. Amongst other aspects of the disease, the treatment and the prognosis will come up in the discussion.
One of the options given by the oncologist is chemotherapy.Chemotherapy has been used in [...]
Mesothelioma Thoracotomy
This type of surgery is applied to pleural mesothelioma patients, more accurately the lung of these patients. There are three types of thoracotomy for pleural mesothelioma sufferers: wedge resection(used on small, localized tumors), lobectomy(one or more lung lobes are removed) and pneumonectomy(the entire lung is removed).
Mesothelioma Thoracoscopy
A thoracoscopy represents a medical procedure involving an [...]
Mesothelioma Pneumonectomy
A pneumonectomy represents the procedure in which a patient’s lung is removed. It’s used on patients that have only one lung infected with mesothelioma and the number of cancer cells cannot be removed individually. After the surgery, the patients require assistance in breathing for a few days.
Mesothelioma Paracentesis
Paracentesis is a medical procedure that is [...]
Thoracentesis is a procedure that involves removing fluid or are from the pleural space in order to diagnose a patient or for therapeutical purposes.First of all the doctor decides from where to extract the sample fluid and to do that he has to have an x-ray chart of the patient.Based on the x-ray he decides [...]
In the medical field, the biopsy is defined as being a procedure through which cells and tissues are removed from a patient for examination. Biopsies fall in 4 major categories.
Breast Biopsy
1. Fine needle aspiration
-Fine needle aspiration(FNA) is a medical procedure that involves a syringe and a fine needle to analyze clusters of cells taken from [...]
Mesothelioma is a horrifying disease to handle much less cope with. There are three major steps needed to be taken in dealing with mesothelioma on a surgical level. The first one is diagnostic surgery which basicaly finds out whether there are cancerous cells and where they’re located, usually it’s non-invasive.The second type of surgery is [...]
Diagnosing mesothelioma is farely easy compared to other hard-to-see diseases out there, the real problem comes when the prognosis is due. Most patients become scared and start being depressed after hearing a prognosis, which in most cases isn’t all that positive. What these people don’t know is that a large number of people have lived [...]
The idea of a cure to such a horrific disease seems to be far fetched for many of the patients diagnosed with mesothelioma but recent studies and personal confessions prove otherwise. A constant battle is waged not only by pacients but doctors and scientists too. The reason why hopes of a cure are growing is [...]
Although mesothelioma is a rare disease, testicular mesothelioma is as the rarest form of mesothelioma cancer. This form of the disease affects the tunica vaginalis or commonly known the membrane sorrounding the testicles.Because it’s such a rare condition not much information is available in the prognosis and treatment.The only way patients are diagnosed with testicula [...]
Mesothelioma is an aggresive form of cancer mainly caused by constant and farely long exposure to asbestos. The asbestos fibres become imbeded in the body’s organs and start destroying the meosthelium. The mesothelium is a membrane that surrounds the internal organs. This disease dissrupts the normal process of the mesothelium in that it makes it [...]
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