What Is the Future of Mesothelioma Treatment?
Thoracic Surgeon, Dr. Jeffery Velotta, share what he thinks the feature of mesothelioma treatment looks like.
[MUSIC PLAYING] The future of mesothelioma treatment I really think is going to be a multimodality approach. So surgery has always been the mainstay, followed by chemotherapy. But I do think immunotherapy and other targeted therapies towards proteins that are on the surfaces, basically, of mesothelioma cells are going to be the future. So really, the idea is to make mesothelioma instead of a disease that thought to be instantly fatal, or such a poor prognosis, to make it into a chronic disease. You're never going to be able to get rid of it. We know that we can't cure it. But the idea is to live several years, if not longer, decades hopefully, eventually, with the disease, just keeping it at bay. [MUSIC PLAYING]
