Alternative Mesothelioma Spray Treatment Research

The surgical procedures for asbestosis treatments or mesothelioma are often considerably arduous, especially if the patient is elderly and a diagnosis is made when the disease is likely to have reached an advanced stage and spread to other tissue areas of the body.

News that a possible alternative to invasive surgery may now be possible, comes from latest research being conducted at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

It is because a long latency period of between 15 and 50 years can elapse from first exposure to asbestos until signs of a suspected mesothelioma or asbestosis symptoms appear that often multiple and very aggressive surgery is attempted to remove the widespread cancerous tumours.

The use of specialised treatment procedures can mean remission may sometimes be achieved, although complete remission and the disappearance of all evidence of mesothelioma cancer is rare.

Traditionally, the first procedure would involve diagnostic surgery to assess the stage and severity to which the mesothelioma cancer has advanced. Further potentially curative surgery is possible if performed at an early stage, and the patient is sufficiently capable to withstand intense surgery followed by a long and demanding rehabilitation process.

A new system has been in development at the University of Strathclyde, which could mean that patients suffering from mesothelioma and lung cancer " could receive safer and more efficient treatment". Medications can be now be delivered through a nebuliser, allowing patients to inhale drug treatments in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs rather than intravenously.

Commonly applied in the medical treatment of cystic fibrosis, asthma, COPD and other respiratory diseases, nebulisers use oxygen, compressed air or ultrasonic power to break up medical solutions/suspensions into small aerosol droplets, which can be directly inhaled from a mouthpiece.

The research hopes that by using cisplatin, one of the most widely used drugs for treating mesothelioma, in a vaporised form, cancerous cells could be more easily targeted and damage to healthy cells would be avoided. As a result, treatment would be less of a debilitating experience for patients and may also increase their survival rate.

The survival rate for the incurable mesothelioma cancer can be between 4 to 12 months. In recent years, medical advances plus combined surgical, radiotherapy and palliative procedures have helped to increase individual patient survival by up to 18 months, and sometimes two years or more. In 2009, alone, over 4,000 deaths occurred which were attributed to mesothelioma and lung cancer.

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Breast-cancer alternative therapies

Jenny is a 42 year old mother of three. Is a housewife is easy, especially if the children in the school and the husband at work. The rest of the day is spent, house cleaning and the laundry with one hour at the local gym to spare.

After taking a shower, Jenny felt some pain in the chest. This could only menopause symptom, so there was no reason for concern. The pain got worse the next day and sensor technology, which was something else, finally decided to visit the doctor.

The doctor was a friend of the family. The initial diagnosis was the chest by touching, followed by a scan by using a mammogram.

There was a lot of cancer cells available so that another test had to be done. The doctor had to be sure, so that a sample is extracted and sent for analysis to a pathologist. After the test, it was only then that a woman of the greatest fear has become a reality. Jenny was diagnosed with breast cancer, and this was already on the third stage.

The third stage means having the cancer that has spread to more than 5 cm. in size and in other parts of the body. It, the chest is useless to remove, because the disease can be removed.

Can it still hope for Jenny, that is already in the advanced breast cancer? The truth is that the chances of recovery are very difficult.

About breast cancer is a harrowing experience. There were then some first signs of disbelief acceptance. The doctor explains everything, Jenny including the treatment and survival rates.

This was Jenny's greatest battle, and that was only the beginning of a long struggle.

Chemotherapy was now the best option. How thought nausea and skin rashes, but Jenny, this was in the short term, because it within larger grow something killed the required be produced some side effects the drugs.

Jenny both the doctor went ahead with the removal of the breast with a procedure called a mastectomy. Because modern medicine reconstructed can have this, was this a small price to pay. To ensure that all the cells was been wiped out, followed by radiation therapy.

Jenny was happy to hear that the cancer was almost a year after the diagnosis was done. Some people say that this was a miracle, because the battle had taken so much was finally won. There was a huge party and everyone, prayed and supported, there to celebrate a second chance at life.

The doctor pointed out that the cancer can repeat. This is the reason the Jenny had to nor the clinic often visit for therapy and tests by, make sure that everything was wiped out.

Advanced breast cancer is sometimes hard to tell. A self examination at home is not enough, and that is why the patient to the doctor for safety testing once or twice per year should go.

There are a lot of people who die from breast cancer and a significant number are diagnosed every year. The person can fight hard, like Jenny have or simply give up on the disease.

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