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Benefits of Surgery With Multimodal Care
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Dr. Jeffrey Velotta
Dr. Velotta emphasizes the importance of combining surgery with multimodal care for improved patient outcomes. It highlights that patients tend to live longer and experience symptom relief, such as reduced pain and fluid buildup, when these treatments are used together.
When you add surgery in a multimodal fashion, Again, we're never saying surgery alone is what we recommend. We always recommend surgery with something else systemically. That has always been shown to be the best.
Patients live Longer. You live longer and you feel better because you got the disease out and it doesn't cause buildup of fluid, It doesn't cause pain anymore. So symptomatically patients feel better.
Yes. It's kind of like a no pain, no gain, meaning the first three months could be rough, and I explain that to patients. But over time, They recover. They all feel better.
I haven't had patients that have said, wish I never had the surgery, or other clinicians coming to me, or other referring providers coming to me, or others saying, You should have never done the surgery, things like that. It tells me at least from the patient satisfaction out of how they're feeling and how they're recovering that they're feeling better than what they did when they did have the mesothelioma.
