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[H775]How Is Cancer Treated

by Groshan Fabiola, Gro

First of all people must know that treatments for prostate cancer are depending on several factors. Age, the extent of the cancer or the medical condition in which the patient is are one of many. Furthermore every person should be discuss with his doctor the kind of treatment he may be given and choose from several depending on the side-effects.

When one has: a problem in emptying his bladder, bladder stones, an enlarged prostate, slow urination or a first or second stage cancer, he must immediately start treatment. There are also cases when one must only wait and monitor his prostate cancer, for not all tumors are fast growing and people can do very well without treatment.
This may be the case especially in older men with medical problems. Monitoring the cancer involves regular visits to the doctor. They make tests, rectal examinations and even x-rays to follow the growing of the tumor and determine if treatment is necessary. This waiting can be very useful because the patient will not suffer from any side effect.

If the doctor has monitored your situation and has concluded that treatment is necessary, you may be faced to one of this treatments:

- An operation to remove the prostate gland, called radical prostectomy.

Radiation treatment, which can be of two types: external beam or implant of radiation.

- Therapy by radiation, but when the prostate cancer has spread.
- Therapy through an external beam , which is pointed directly at the cancer.
- An implant of a radioactive pallet, of small caliber, inserted into the prostate. It can generate radioactivity from a few weeks to months and doesn't have to be removed after.

These treatments can cause several side effects of significant importance. When using the external beam irritation, skin burn or even loosing hair is most likely. These effects may also be permanent. There is also the case of becoming impotent or the inability to keep urine, side effects found in using both of the radiation treatments.

Treatment by using hormones is another method, but not likely to be given in cases where the prostate cancer has spread. Their purpose is to reduce the level of testosterone or even stop it from working. At first this tretment may work, but in time the cancer may progress. Here are some ways for the hormonal treatment:
-Removing by surgery the testicles.
-Using drugs or agents such as flutamide or bicalutamide.
-Using estrogen(it has strong side effects).

Like any other cancer treatment this two has side effects such as vomiting, impotence, nausea or the enlargement of the breasts.

Finally there is chemotherapy. This treatment is not very used cause it is very toxic and has many side effects.

The mesothelioma cancer is one of the most dangerous cancers discovered till now, it can attack some places in the body like the pleura, the abdomen and the pericardium. According to the affected area, mesothelioma cancer can be classified to three types, the pericardial mesothelioma that attack the pericardium area, the pleural mesothelioma that attack the pleura area and the peritoneal mesothelioma that attack the pericardium area.

The main problems with diagnosis process is the very long time for symptoms to appear, they takes about 45 years to appear. After they appear, they will be very similar to other disease that make the diagnosis process more harder.

The main cause of mesothelioma cancer was discovered, they are the asbestos, the asbestos materials are material that was used in the past in some manufacturing fields such as the cement and textile manufacturing fields. Asbestos are the main cause of mesothelioma cancer.

The main types of treatment should be, the surgery method, the chemotherapy method and the radiation method. The surgery method in which the doctor can remove the affected area with the tumors. The chemotherapy option in which the doctor give the mesothelioma patient some powerful chemical drugs that can kill the cancer cells instantly. The radiotherapy is also another treatment option for mesothelioma that can be combined with the other two options.

For mesothelioma litigation and compensation, the mesothelioma victim can make a litigation to have a suitable compensation from the manufacturing company that let him/her to deal with Asbestos. The mesothelioma settlement can reach millions of dollars.

There are other alternative medicine treatment by using some herbal drugs or by the other famous alternative medicine options. Finally, you must consul your doctor that can decide which treatment option should be more suitable that the other.

When the Asbestos enter the body, they settle on the wall of lungs cause inflammations, those inflammations can cause malignant tumors after many years, it takes very long time for mesothelioma symptoms to appear and this is why the diagnosis process for mesothelioma is very hard.

For treatment processes, mesothelioma cancer can be treated by using one of the following options, the first option is the surgery, the second option is the chemotherapy and the last effective option is the radiotherapy. There are many other options but not effective.

In the surgery option the surgeon will likely remove the malignant tumors from the lungs, in some cases, the surgeon may have to remove the whole lung. The surgery option is the most effective option to treat that cancer, whereas the chemotherapy and the radiation therapy are considered to be assistant treatment options.

In the chemotherapy option, certain types of chemicals that can kill cancer cells. As I mentioned before, the chemotherapy option can be used after the surgery as an assistant method to remove any remaining cancer cells. The radiation therapy is the option of using certain types of radiations that have the ability of destroying tha cancer cells, this option can also be used after the surgery to destroy any remaining cancer cells.

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