The three main types of mesothelioma treatment include radiation therapy, chemotherapy and surgery.
Radiation Therapy
It is extremely difficult to deliver adequate doses of radiation necessary to kill the tumor without harming the surrounding organs due to the location of mesothelioma cells. There is an option of lowering the radiation dose, however, it is hard to determine whether low doses of radiation are significant in reducing the survival rate among patients. Unfortunately, using radiation therapy after surgery has not been very successful in terms of increasing the rate of survival, however, since surgery does not always remove the entire tumor, radiation therapy can help kill the remaining cancer cells and relieve certain symptoms of the disease such as chest pain.
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