Treatments For Pleural Mesothelioma

Emerging Treatment

New experimental studies are constantly being conducted to find emerging treatment for mesothelioma and other cancers. One area of focused research is immunotherapy, which is the term covering a broad class of therapeutic strategies capable of immune system targeting. One of the largest areas of research in the immunotherapy field is related to cancer. Common immunotherapy treatments currently used are monoclonal antibodies and checkpoint inhibitors.

Gene therapy is another type of medical treatment. Its goal is to fix a person's mutations and genetic problems through the introduction of genes that properly function. Gene therapy may be helpful in the future for people with a genetic predisposition to pleural mesothelioma.

There is a tumor protein known as TP53. This human gene assists in cancer suppression. Treatments for cancer that use p53 are still in early experimentation stages. The protein has great promise due to its ability to kill or repair cells that have damaged DNA.