A doctor must be seen if a person has shortness of the breathing, pain in the chest, or pain or swelling in the abdomen. If there are symptoms, the doctor can request a x-ray of the chest or the abdomen.
The doctor can watch within the cavity of chest with a special instrument called thoracoscope. A cut will be done through the wall of the chest and thoracoscope will be put in the chest between two ribs. This test, call thoracoscopy, is made generally in the hospital. Before the test, they will give to the patient the anesthetic premises (a drug that inflict casualties of sensation by a period of the short time). A certain pressure can be felt, but there is no pain generally.
The doctor can also watch within the abdomen (peritoneoscopy) with a special tool called peritoneoscope. Peritoneoscope is put in an opening done in the abdomen. This test also is made generally in the hospital. Before the test becomes, the anesthetic premises will be given.
If is the fine weave that it is not normal, the doctor will need to cut a small piece and to have it cautious underneath a microscope to see if there are some cells of cancer. This is called a biopsy. The biopsies are made generally during thoracoscopy or peritoneoscopy.
The occasion of the recovery (prognosis) depends the cancer as large as, where it is the cancer, how the cancer is separated distant spot, how the cells of cancer watch underneath the microscope, how the cancer responds to the treatment, and the age of the patient.
Stage III: The cancer is had separated in the wall of the chest, center of the chest, heart, through the diaphragm, or of the abdominal trimming, and in some cases in next nodes of lymph.
Stage IV: The cancer is had separated to the organs or distant fine weaves.
The x-ray uses x-rays of great energy to kill to the cells of cancer and the tumors of the shrinking. The radiation can come from a machine outside the body (external x-ray) or to put the materials that produce the radiation (radioisótopos) through the fine plastic tubes in the area where are the cells of cancer (internal x-ray).
If the liquid has gathered in the chest or the abdomen, the doctor can drain the liquid of the body putting a needle in the chest or the abdomen and using the calm suction to clear the liquid. If the liquid takes off of the chest, this is called thoracentesis. If the liquid takes off of the abdomen, this is called paracentesis. The doctor can also pass drugs through a tube in the chest to avoid that more liquid accumulates.
The chemotherapy uses drugs to kill the cells of cancer. The chemotherapy can be taken by the pill, or can be put in the body by a needle in the vein or the muscle. The chemotherapy is called a treatment systemic because the drug enters the sanguineous circulation, travels through the body, and can kill to the cells of cancer through the body. In mesothelioma, the chemotherapy can be put directly in the chest (intrapleural chemotherapy).
The therapy photodynamic of Intraoperative is a new type of treatment that uses special drugs and the light to kill to the cells of cancer during surgery. A drug that makes the more sensible cells of cancer to the light injects in a vein several days before the surgery. During the surgery to clear as much of the cancer as it is possible, a special light is used to shine in the pleura. This treatment is studying for the first times of mesothelioma in the chest.
The standard treatment can be considered due to its effectiveness in patients inside beyond studies, or the participation in a clinical test can be considered. They cure to not all the patients with standard therapy and some standard treatments can have effects secondary than they are desired. For these reasons, the clinical tests are designed to find ways better to deal with patients the cancer and they are based more on the updated information. The clinical tests are in course in many parts of the country for many patients with mesothelioma bad. In order to learn more on clinical tests, it calls the informative service of the cancer in 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237); Teleescritor equipment in 1-800-332-8615.
If the cancer is in one more a greater piece of the pleura, the treatment can be one of the following one:
For more information, the residents of the United States can free call the informative service of the cancer in 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) Monday through Friday as of the 9:00 morning to 4:30 deaf P.M. and the callers of the hard-of-hearing with the equipment of the teleescritor equipment can call 1-800-332-8615. The call is free and a trained specialist of the information of the cancer is available to answer her questions.
Publications
The national institute of the cancer (NCI) has libretes and other materials for the patients, the professionals of health, and the public. These publications discuss the types of cancer, methods of treatment of the cancer, facing the cancer, and to the clinical tests. Some publications provide the information in the tests for the cancer, the causes and prevention of the cancer, statistic of the cancer, and the activities of the investigation of NCI. The materials of NCI in these and other subjects can be requested in line or be printed directly of the localizer of NCI publications. These materials can also be requested by the telephone of the informative service of the cancer free in 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237), teleescritor equipment in 1-800-332-8615.
LiveHelp
The NCÍs LiveHelp (HTTP: the service of //cancer.gov/livehelp/vp/vp_sq.html), a program available in several of the Web of the institute locates, provides to users with the Internet the capacity to chat in line with a specialist of the information. The service is available as of the 9:00 morning for the time of the east of 5:00 P.M., of Monday through Friday. The specialists of the information can help users of the Internet to find the information on sites of the Web of NCI and to answer questions on cancer.
Organizations and sites of the Web
There are many other places in where people can obtain to the materials and the information on the treatment and services of the cancer. The local hospitals can have information on the local and regional agencies that offer the information on finances, obtaining to and from the treatment, receiving taken care of in the country, and taking care of the problems associated to the treatment of the cancer. A list of the organizations and the sites of the Web that offer the information and the services for the patients of the cancer and their families is available in cancer.gov (HTTP: //cancer.gov/support_resources.html).
Write
For more information of the NCI, it writes please to this direction:
PDQ is the comprehensive data base of the information of the cancer of the national institute of the cancer (NCÍs). Most of the information contained in PDQ he is available in cancer.gov, the site of the Web of NCÍs. PDQ is provided like service of the NCI. The NCI is part of the national institutes of the health, the focal point of the federal government for the biomedical investigation.
PDQ contains the intelligence summaries of the cancer.
The data base of PDQ contains the summaries of the information published last on the prevention of the cancer, the detection, the genetics, the treatment, the care of support, and the complementary and alternative medicine. Most of the summaries they are available in two versions. The versions of the health professional provide the detailed information written in technical language. The patient versions are written inside easy-to-understand, nontechnical language. Both versions provide the present and exact information of the cancer.
The intelligence summaries of the PDQ cancer are developed by the regularly reviewed experts of the cancer and.
The redaccionales writing committees composed of experts in oncología and the related specialties are responsible for the writing and to maintain the intelligence summaries of the cancer. The summaries are reviewed regularly and the changes are made whereas the new information gets to be available. The date in the cover of each summary ("Last modified of the date") indicates the time of the most recent change.
PDQ also contains the information on clinical tests.
Before the treatment that begins, the patients can wish to think to participate in a clinical test. A clinical test is a study to answer a scientific question, for example if a treatment is better than another one. The tests are based ignition beyond studies and what has been learned in the laboratory. Each test answers certain scientific questions to find new and better ways to help patients of the cancer. During clinical tests of the treatment, the information takes shelter on new treatments, the implied risks, and how it is or they do or they do not work. If a clinical test demonstrates that a new treatment is better of one than it is used at the moment, the new treatment can become "standard."
The listings of clinical tests are included in PDQ and are available in the HTTP: //cancer.gov/search/clinical_trials. The descriptions of the tests are available in versions of the professional and the patient of health. They enumerate many doctors of the cancer who also participate in clinical tests in PDQ. For more information, it calls the informative service of cancer 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237); Teleescritor equipment in 1-800-332-8615.
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