Chemotherapy for the Mesothelioma Patient
Chemotherapy is the treatment of mesothelioma with drugs that can
destroy cancer cells. The drugs are sometimes called chemotherapy
"agents" or "medications".
Mesothelioma cancer cells differ from normal cells partly because
they keep dividing and forming more cells without control. Anticancer
drugs destroy cancer cells by stopping them from growing or multiplying.
The presence of chemotherapy drugs in the body also hurts or kills
healthy cells, especially those that divide quickly, and it is this
harm to healthy cells that causes side effects.
Because some drugs work better together than alone, two or more drugs
are often given at the same time. This is called combination chemotherapy.
Other types of drugs may be used to treat your cancer. These may
include certain drugs that can block the effect of your body's hormones.
Or doctors may use biological therapy, which
is treatment with substances that boost the body's own immune system
against cancer. Your body usually makes these substances in small
amounts to fight cancer and other diseases. These substances can be
made in the laboratory and given to patients to destroy cancer cells
or change the way the body reacts to a tumor. They may also help the
body repair or make new cells destroyed by chemotherapy.
Sometimes chemotherapy is the only treatment a patient receives.
More often, however, chemotherapy is used in addition to surgery,
radiation therapy, and/or biological therapy to:
- Shrink a tumor before surgery or radiation therapy. This is called
neo-adjuvant therapy.
- Help destroy any cancer cells that may remain after surgery and/or
radiation therapy. This is called adjuvant chemotherapy.
- Make radiation therapy and biological therapy work better.
- Help destroy cancer if it recurs or has spread to other parts
of the body from the original tumor.
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