Archive for October 19th, 2009

Mesothelioma and Drug Treatment

October 19, 2009 by Ann-Marie Waters · 1 Comment
Filed under: Drugs and Treatment 

The most common drugs that are used to treat asbestos related disease such as ‘pleural mesothelioma’ include:   Pemetrexed (Alimta) Cisplatin Carboplatin (paraplatin)    Pleural Mesothelioma   Pleural mesothelioma is predominantly caused by exposure to asbestos and is a rare cancer that develops in the ‘mesothelial cells’ The mesothelium cells make up the mesothelium, which [...]