How Chemotherapy Treats Malignant Mesothelioma
 Chemotherapy Chemotherapy drugs interfere with malignant mesothelioma cancer cells' ability to divide and reproduce
Instead, the cells become damaged and die. Because chemotherapy drugs flow through the blood stream, they reach cancer cells all over the body. These drugs are also toxic to healthy tissues, so chemotherapy must be planned so that it slowly kills the cancer and not normal cells. Following successful chemotherapy, the normal tissue will recover, but the malignant mesothelioma cells will not.
Chemotherapy drugs are given in many different ways. The manner in which you may receive mesothelioma treatment will vary according to your type of cancer and the drugs you are taking. The most common method of delivery is by injection into a vein. Less commonly used methods include oral tablets, muscular injection, or subcutaneous (under the skin) injection.
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