Asbestos: How can be cured or treated?

6 comments

1. Canadita Canada on August 29, 2010 at 11:44 am

   Cure: None
   Treatments (some): http://mesothelioma.eu.pn

2. Tom on August 29, 2010 at 11:44 am

   no cure. fatal

3. the ape man on August 29, 2010 at 11:44 am

   Im not a heme/onc specialist but this is usually a late presenting and rapidly fatal disease. They only way to treat it is avoiding exposure.

4. R K on August 29, 2010 at 11:44 am

   there isn’t a cure. treatment is chemotherapy, radiation therapy and sometimes surgery.

5. dlp on August 29, 2010 at 11:44 am

   Treatment of malignant mesothelioma at an early stage has a better prognosis, then one found later of course but cures are exceedingly rare. it is treated with chemotherapies and multimodality treatments. (a comb of all or some of either surgery,radiation and chemo). median survival is 14.5 months and only 29.6% surviving 2 years

6. Ndz067 on August 29, 2010 at 11:44 am

   I’m sorry, but Tom is right, it can’t be cured. The symptoms can be controlled, the severity can be managed to a degree, but the progress of Asbestosis cannot be halted or reversed. The best management is to avoid it in the first place – which brings in various issues on policies in the workplace, environmental pollution, even basic human rights.

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