Asbestos News: Chemoembolization used to treat woman with mesothelioma

A woman diagnosed with mesothelioma has been able to shrink her tumor using an emerging treatment, "chemoembolization."

The woman, 49, had earlier won financial compensation in a mesothelioma lawsuit that sought to prove her illness was caused by hugging her father who had worked as an asbestos lagger at a naval shipyard in the 1960s.

She reportedly traveled to The University Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany, where treatment was delivered straight to her tumor using the chemoembolization method.

Reportedly, she has been told that her tumor has shrunk in half.

The chemoembolization treatment has been used in the United Kingdom for liver cancer but not other forms of the disease.

Chemoembolization gives chemotherapy drugs direct to the tumor area through a catheter into the lung.

A spokesman for Cancer Research UK said that the drug was used mainly for cancers where a tumor was well defined and in a single location, which would not often be the case with mesothelioma.

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