There is a potential new treatment for mesothelioma patients, option involving photodynamic therapy or PDT, which is also known as photoradiation therapy, phototherapy or photochemotherapy.
The treatment involves the patient being given a chemical which makes their cells sensitive to light and then a physician shines a special laser on the tumors. It is less invasive than surgery and has no reported long term side effects.
However a few people can be allergic to the sensitizing drug and the eyes and skin can also become very sensitive to light for a long time afterwards, some 5 to 6 weeks, so need to dress with their body totally covered with clothes.
PDT has been used in the treatment of cancer of the esophagus and endobronchial cancer and has produced longer survival rates. It is now being studied as a treatment for localized cancers which have not spread and on those patients with epithelial mesothelioma where it has been seen again to produce longer survival rates.
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