Being
diagnosed with cancer is a difficult problem that will bring heavy thought for
patient. Indeed, this bad news is something that nobody wants to hear. As a
life threatening disease, cancer brings huge risk of death to its patient. It
takes a serious medical treatment to be
cured from cancer, especially mesothelioma cancer. The treatment may
involve surgery with high risk to successfully remove all cancer cells. The
treatment itself will be a long and tiring process that involves chemotherapy
and radiotherapy. Even after surgery and therapies, patient still needs careful
treatment during the recovery. It involves a big change on patients’ lifestyle
as they have to maintain healthy lifestyle in order to minimize the risk of
contracting illnesses. If patients with mesothelioma want to find medical
treatment with the highest chance to recover from the cancer, then surgery will
likely be the best answer.
Although
surgery makes the best medical treatment for mesothelioma, but it’s still quite
risky. Usually, surgical procedure will still involve chemotherapy and
radiotherapy to fully remove cancer cells from the body. In order to help
patients of mesothelioma from making the best decision concerning their health
condition, it’s wise for them to find as much information as possible on the
treatments offered. Even if the doctor suggests you to take surgical procedure
for your mesothelioma cancer, you still needed to know what will happen to your
lungs during the procedure. At least, it will help patients to prepare
themselves, mentally and physically, for the high risky surgical procedure.
During the surgery, surgeon will remove the tumor from their lungs. It may
affect their breathing capability. It will likely to bring some changes on your
physical stamina.
After
surgeon has succeeded on the surgery, it’s the recovery time that can bring the
same level of risk. At these moments, patients are at their most vulnerable
moments that require mesothelioma surgery
recovery treatment that can prevent them from contracting diseases. Within
one or two weeks after the surgery, patient will receive inpatient treatment
which involves intensive treatments and of course, it’s part of the treatment
at the hospital. However, it doesn’t stop there. After the inpatient treatment,
there’s still outpatient treatment that takes longer but less effective to
patient. These post-surgery treatments will require patient’s responsibility
and willingness to change lifestyle.
Post-surgery
treatments will also involve physical therapy. The surgery gives huge impact on
physical capability. Therapy will be a series of physical training from the simplest thing, such
as breathing and coughing exercises. It may sound easy, but it can be quite
risky for mesothelioma surgery patients. Therefore,
they need to take small steps in order to regain their physical strength back.
Even after physical therapy patient will still go through drastic change in
their lifestyle. There’s big chance that patients won’t be able to do physical
exercise as good as their previous condition. Patients will have to give up on
doing exercise or sports that used to be their hobby. However, these risks will
be worth with the recovery and freedom from mesothelioma cancer and you will have longer life time.