“Chemotherapy” is a scary word, and if you know someone who has had cancer, they may have told you that they felt even sicker while undergoing chemotherapy than they did with their cancer symptoms before they began chemotherapy. It usually is not possible to tell from looking at someone that they have cancer, but hair loss is a common and obvious sign that someone is ...
If you have never experienced cancer treatment firsthand because of your own illness or that of a close family member, then you have only heard about the scariest parts, like the debilitating side effects, including hair loss, nausea and vomiting, and immunosuppression. Research about many types of cancer, including mesothelioma, is ongoing, which is why the five-year survival rates for most types of cancer have ...
From the moment that doctors begin to suspect that you have cancer until the time of your last cancer treatment, it feels like you are undergoing an endless series of tests. Some of them are simple blood tests that can take place at your doctor’s office during checkup visits or at outpatient laboratories like LabCorp and Quest diagnostics. Others are medical imaging tests that some ...
After a diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, your health care provider may recommend one or more surgical procedures in order to take a biopsy or to remove cancerous tissue. There are many different types of surgical procedures that ultimately may be conducted when a patient has pleural mesothelioma or another type of malignant mesothelioma. These surgical procedures or options often have technical terms that can be ...
Following a malignant mesothelioma diagnosis, surgery could be recommended for you. Depending upon your specific circumstances, a doctor might recommend a type of exploratory surgery to determine whether you have malignant mesothelioma or where the cancer is specifically located. The most common type of malignant mesothelioma, pleural mesothelioma, often involves an exploratory procedure known as a thoracoscopy. With this procedure, the doctor will make small ...
