What Is the Future of Cancer and Mesothelioma Treatment?

[MUSIC PLAYING] The future of treatment for cancer, including mesothelioma, is really now. The FDA has a number of targeted therapies approved, as well as immunotherapy, and we're finding, even in mesothelioma, many of these are effective for types of diseases that historically were difficult to treat. I still think surgery will have a role in helping patients feel better and live longer, but these adjuvant therapies, I really believe, are the future in sort of targeting patients' individual tumors, harnessing the immune system to really attack a patient's own tumor with less toxicity to the rest of their body. Even radiation of small tumor areas with certain drugs may actually have effects with other sites so that patients can get radiation that has a better treatment effect with a little more focused and less toxicity. So the future, I think, will be tailoring individual therapies for individual patients, really the selection of which therapies for which patient, and with less toxicity overall and better survival. [MUSIC PLAYING]