Undergoing Mesothelioma Surgery - From a Mesothelioma Survivor

The first treatment for the mesothelioma was a pleurectomy decortication, which is an operation. They cut through the middle of your back, between your ribs to the almost the middle of your front. It was supposed to be a eight inch incision, but it looks more like twelve. It, they had to remove a rib. They took the cancer that was collected around my the plural, lining of my lung and it was scraped off. I had six lymph nodes cut off. Two of them turned out also positive for mesothelioma. So I was pretty close to the stage where I was still a candidate to have the operation done, because it hadn't, spread further.