{"id":3396,"date":"2020-07-22T09:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T08:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmesotheliomanetwork.scot.nhs.uk\/?page_id=3396"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:10:57","slug":"treatments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/patients\/treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clinical Trials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Current clinical trial information can be found under the clinical trial menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chemotherapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemotherapy is used to target cancer cells.&nbsp; It works by killing cancer cells, preventing them for reproducing and spreading to other areas in the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Immunotherapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Immunotherapy is used to stimulate your own body\u2019s immune system to find and attack cancer cells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Radiotherapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Radiotherapy is used to kill cancer cells with radiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch and Wait Approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be a appropriate to keep a patient under close clinical and radiological surveillance without treatment particularly if they have minimal symptoms.&nbsp; This approach is called \u2018watch and wait\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Symptom Directed Care<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Best supportive care or palliative care involves alleviating and controlling symptoms caused by Mesothelioma and providing support for psychological, social, and spiritual problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Clinical Trials Current clinical trial information can be found under the clinical trial menu. Chemotherapy Chemotherapy is used to target [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":2884,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3396\/revisions\/6202"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/scottishmesotheliomanetwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}