What Does the Future of Mesothelioma Treatment Look Like?
Mesothelioma specialist, Dr. Jacques Fontaine discusses the future of mesothelioma treatment.
What is the future hold for mesothelioma treatment? I think the future for mesothelioma treatment is a bright one. I'll tell you a story. When I was at an intern, in Montreal, I remember seeing my first mesothelioma patient. This is in the early nineties. And when I spoke to the professor and explained to them, the case of mesothelioma, the professor told me you know the best type of treatment for this patient is to give him a fishing pole and tell him to go fishing. Then years later, I went to Bringham and Women's Hospital with Dr. Sugar Baker, and then learned that there's a lot of options for mesothelioma. And as the science continues to grow, as we start looking at it from a different angle, as we start thinking outside the box, There's gonna be a lot of innovative and very interesting treatments for this disease. I think the way to make a progress is to think outside the box, learn how to make the patient's immune system go after these cancer cells. Learn how to find a better way to diagnose and diagnose this disease earlier and find ways to use the patient's genes to beat this disease. And that's what I and my team at Moffitt Cancer Center try to achieve for our patients. Innovative ways with our clinical trials, cutting edge radiation therapy that we offer, and state of the art surgery for our mesothelioma patients.