Peritoneal cancer treatment is very effective, according to a number of factors, including:
- The stage of cancer or how advanced it is
- To what extent the cancer has spread, or metastases in other parts of the body,
- Your general health
You and your doctor can work together as the treatment plan most effectively, develop best meet your needs.
The treatment of peritoneal cancer can be combinations of the following methods:
- Surgery - Surgery is used to diagnose and treat cancer of the peritoneum, which is where the cancer has risen again, unclear, or if you have a mass in the pelvis. This process is called exploratory operation in which the tumor from the abdominal wall where the tumor has begun to detach.
- Chemotherapy – Chemotherapy drugs for cancer, which are usually injected into a vein. Drugs to treat cancer of the peritoneum are used, similar to the fight against the cancer drug for the treatment of ovarian cancer. Depending on the type of chemotherapy drugs used in treatment can be administered weekly or every two or three weeks. In most cases, patients are outpatients.
- Supportive measures - is, unfortunately, in some cases, cancer of the peritoneum is not diagnosed until progress has been made. Support measures, which is also known as palliative care has increased in patients whose disease to date, they are too underdeveloped to be treated with intensive chemotherapy. Supportive care aims to symptoms of cancer of the peritoneum, such as pain, weight loss and fluid in the abdominal cavity, which in May issued an appeal procedure to relieve abdominal puncture.
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