According to recent reports, adding chemotherapy to other treatments that are given to patients living with mesothelioma may not be as beneficial as experts previously thought.

A new study shows that being treated with chemotherapy for the illness doesn’t improve survival or the patients overall quality of life.

Study Conducted

The study analyzed the effects of chemotherapy on mesothelioma patients who were also receiving at least one other treatment for the cancer.

The other group involved reportedly only received one form of treatment.

The patients in the group receiving more than one form of treatment, including chemotherapy, had a 37 percent higher survival rate than those who didn’t have chemo.

Quality of Life

Researchers claim that an estimated 96 percent of patients in both groups died and there was only a slight increase in the quality of life and extension of life for those who received chemotherapy.

Quality of life scores, including physical functioning, shortness of breath and overall health, were supposedly nearly equal in both groups.

“The addition of chemotherapy to ASC offers no significant benefits in terms of overall survival or quality of life,” explained the authors of the study.

(Source: Forbes)

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