![]() |
|
![]() |
|
  >Mesothelioma  >About Us  >Contact Us  >Bookmark Us  >Tell Friend  >Support Us                        >Dictionary |
| Mesothelioma Treatment Search: | |
    Before you start to search for the best mesothelioma treatment, find out whether your doctor's treatment plan is the best standard treatment. You can send your mesothelioma treatment plan to elite hospital/ doctors and let them give you second opinion.     Since it is usually late when mesothelioma is diagnosed, on average patients survives 4 to 8 months after diagnosis. However, The prognosis (out come) of mesothelioma is dependent on stage, age and health of a patient. If it is discovered early when cancer is still localized and the treatment is aggressive, the survival time can be 5 years or even longer.     Unless you are fully cured, mesothelioma may come back or it is too advanced to be treated. Standard mesothelioma treatment is limited in dealing with these situations. Most of mesothelioma patients need to actively search for better treatment to prevent recurrence, or for advanced stage.     People may be confused (for a good reason): if my doctor or the whole system can't find a better cure, is there really a better mesothelioma treatment? We are positive about the answer because of the following reasons: first, there are new emerging treatments; second, there are better treatments developed in other parts of the world and they are not yet available in US; third there are effective treatments that are not yet subjected to scientific study. |