New Treatment for Asbestos Lung Mesothelioma: Lovastatin
Recently I read that Lovastatin was used to treat a patient with stage 4 melanoma and that the patient has been cancer free for 9 years. Lovastatin initially has been known to be a proven anti-cancer drug with a powerful killing effect on cancerous cells. But the drug was deemed too risky due the high doses required for studying the effects. Recently in Nashville, Tennessee clinical studies were conducted on patients with pleural mesothelioma with promising effects. Lovastatin normally is used in the treatment of cholesterol by inducing apoptosis on mesothelium cells.
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Lung removal or extrapleural pneumonectomy is one of the most well-known mesothelioma treatment options and is usually only done if the disease is caught fairly early on, when the cancer hasn’t spread. If this is the case, a portion of the lung on one side (where the cancer is believed to be isolated) is removed. This is usually followed by either chemo or radiation therapy.
Lets see how Lovastatin can be used on a large scale
It would be interesting to see how well Lovastatin works on mesothelioma on a larger scale.