Can pleural mesothelioma be cured
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Pleural mesothelioma is a primary tumor of pleura, the life of patients with pleural mesothelioma is not a fixed number, the mentality is better, and can get good treatment in the early stage, is able to live for a long time, long-term survival, no difference with normal people, but if the patient's mentality is negative, this kind of people is still quite a lot, after all, many people are not qualified psychological quality, or If there is no treatment, the life span of this kind of patients is relatively short, especially the patients in the late stage are often months to years. The cause of the disease is secondary to other diseases. So how long can pleural mesothelioma live. Let's take a look at the following.
Can pleural mesothelioma be cured
First, for the examination of lung tumor disease, the most important thing is to collect the medical history: it is the first step to make clear the patient's detailed history and symptoms; then it is to do a comprehensive physical examination, and the detailed physical examination is the second step of diagnosis; comprehensive physical examination can further understand the patient's pain.
Second, we also need to test blood routine, urine routine, stool routine, liver and kidney function, electrolytes, blood coagulation, and auxiliary examination of related tumor markers; we can also pass x-ray / CT, MRI, pet, ect, B-ultrasound, endoscopy; this is an essential examination for diagnosis, and then cell and histological examination, which is the gold standard for qualitative diagnosis of tumor, as well as the inspection basis It can be used as a source of protein.
Third: when the patient can not be determined by the previous relevant examination, the intraoperative diagnosis is the last diagnostic means; the nature of the tumor can be clearly defined by the direct vision, surgical exploration and frozen pathology of the operation, so as to make a comprehensive evaluation of the future treatment and adjust the treatment plan.
matters needing attention
Some patients will also have symptoms of axillary lymph node enlargement, the best treatment for pleural mesothelioma is surgery, chemotherapy is recommended after surgery, commonly used drugs are doxorubicin, doxorubicin is often combined with cisplatin, mitomycin, methotrexate, etc.