Do You Think Immunotherapy Is the Future of Mesothelioma Treatment?
Thoracic Surgeon, Dr. Jeffery Velotta, share what he thinks the feature of mesothelioma treatment looks like.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Immunotherapy has really come up. And I think the clinical trials will show of benefit with immunotherapy. I think the future is going to be looking at get the surgery, get the cancer out so they can get well enough. They can start gaining weight again. They don't feel the shortness of breath. They don't feel the pain. And then, ultimately, just provide them with just protection, preventative so like things not coming back. So just give them the immunotherapy and the chemotherapy afterwards. And preliminary, when we look at our patients that we've kind of been doing that for, it looked with doing surgery followed by chemotherapy followed by immunotherapy. They actually live the longest compared to even surgery and chemotherapy just alone. So I think it's really that addition of adding immunotherapy. [MUSIC PLAYING]