What Treatment Options Did You Pursue for Pleural Mesothelioma?
Carla pursued treatment for pleural mesothelioma, including chemo and immune therapy under the care of Dr. George Simon. She initially experienced medication side effects but ultimately had a positive outcome, with the tumor shrinking significantly after the third therapy. Despite initially scheduling surgery, it was postponed twice, and a decision was made not to proceed with the surgery. Dr. De Silva contacted Carla's daughter to discuss her condition.
Doctor DaSilva sent me to, doctor George Simon, and he he's very, very good. I ended up having, chemo, and I think it's called immunotherapy. And, you know, the first few times was kinda hard because I would be sleeping a lot and, you know, it it does have its effect on you, the the medications that they give you and everything. But had positive outcome. They had told me that my tumor was the size of a softball when I it started, fracturing my ribs and then damaging ribs. And then, after my third, therapy, the tumor had shrunk quite a bit. And that was amazing. To me, that was awesome, you know. And, it has had continued to do so in my therapy. I was scheduled to have surgery but it got postponed twice, and I decided that it was kind of a sign not to have the surgery done. So I talked to doctor DaSilva about it, and, he said that was fine. And that it came to that point where I needed surgery, He'd take care of it. He's very good. He's, when he found out that my daughter was a doctor, he he wanted to call her. He called her right away and talked to her and told her, you know, what I was going through, what I had. Yeah.
