Palliative treatment - palliative treatment is meant to ease the patient's discomfort or pain through pain medication, removal of large tumors that are putting pressure on other organs, or by draining fluid that also causes painful pressure and swelling.Any kind of treatment that brings comfort to a patient is considered palliative, so non-medical therapies such as yoga, meditation, prayer, herbal or nutritional supplements or other methods are also considered palliative mesothelioma treatments.
It is important to stress that while some people may find these therapies beneficial for other reasons, there is no scientific evidence to indicate that they do anything to cure mesothelioma.Curative treatment - because mesothelioma is always terminal, treatments that may be curative for other types of cancer are at best only helpful in delaying the progression of mesothelioma. These therapies include chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, or any combination of those.
They are meant to decrease the amount of cancer in the body to help the patient survive longer and have a better quality of life.
Experimental treatments - these are therapies currently in the research or clinical trial phase. They can be either palliative mesothelioma or curative in nature. Patients that wish to receive experimental therapies must meet certain criteria.
To date, there is no treatment that has been proven to cure pericardial mesothelioma. However, several new clinical trials , such as immunotherapy, gene therapy, photodynamic therapy and anti-angiogenesis therapy give hope that a cure may not be far off.
Survival
The prognosis for pericardial mesothelioma victims is grim. Some people die within weeks of being diagnosed. Few live longer than a year, although a tiny percentage has lived as long as five years after diagnosis.
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