| Radiotherapy or Radiation therapy is the old way for | | | | cancer post surgery. It is effective also in controlling |
| treating various kinds of cancers and thousands of | | | | symptoms and so helps patients feel comfortable |
| cancer patients are treated today with radiation | | | | who are suffering from Malignant Mesothelioma |
| therapy. Radiation therapy means using rays of | | | | cancer. Radiation therapy is effective in pain control |
| high-energy to kill cancerous cells and reduce tumors. | | | | and to control the fluids accumulation in the lungs or |
| Radiation therapy can be used alone or it can be | | | | abdomen. |
| combined with other treatments like chemotherapy | | | | Radiation therapy uses a kind of energy known as |
| or surgery. A patient may be given more than one | | | | ionizing radiation which is able to damage or destroy |
| kind of radiation therapy. It is often used to shrink | | | | cells of cancer. It almost stops the cancerous cells |
| the tumors prior to surgery or it can be given post | | | | growth by making it impossible for cells to divide and |
| surgery to stop the cancer from returning. Radiation | | | | grow. It is given as a local treatment as it affects |
| therapy may be administered with chemotherapy. It | | | | only the cells in treated area. Cells of cancer are not |
| helps in shrinkage of the tumor and makes the | | | | destroyed immediately when patient is given radiation |
| chemotherapy drugs perform better, if given before | | | | therapy. It will take many days of treatment until |
| or during chemotherapy. It can be given after | | | | cancer affected cells will begin to die. But, they will |
| chemotherapy which can help to destroy remaining | | | | continue to die for weeks or months after stopping |
| cells of cancer. | | | | the treatment. With latest technology the radiation |
| The Malignant Mesothelioma location sometimes can | | | | rays are tightly focused. However, other cells that |
| make it difficult to use high radiation doses without | | | | are non-cancerous nearby the body area of the |
| doing major damages to the nearby organs and so | | | | treatment are likely to be destroyed also by radiation. |
| there are doubts if radiation is works in treating | | | | Radiation therapy has lesser side effects than other |
| Malignant Mesothelioma cancer. But it is really | | | | treatments of cancer. |
| effective when used for killing remaining cells of | | | | |