The one of the deadliest disease, many fear and this is caused due to the exposure to asbestos - Mesothelioma. Today we are able to at least treat this cancer in some or the other way. It is difficult to treat such people who are in the acute stage of mesothelioma, but our medical science is still finding the easy ways to cure it.In the recent times, there has been little hope with the new treatment to mesothelioma victims in Cancer Information, this is called gene therapy. In this type of therapy one attempts to decipher as to why proteins within certain cells are resilient to cancer while some cells do not. Previously it was believed that genes complete upon birth, and that they could not affect later in life. But this is not the truth. Sunlight, smoking and certain foods can also affect our DNA which further makes changes in our genetic code.

The another major cause of this disease is the exposure to asbestos, but genetic changes in a person also worsen it. In the gene therapy, cancer-causing genes are replaced with genes which are medically constructed to be destroyed when exposed to cancerous growth. These ’suicide genes’ slow down the rapid replication of cancerous cells or may also stop the growth of the cancer cells. Many studies have been carried out to experiment with replacing the cancer generating genes with other genes susceptible to certain drugs. This would allow the cancer to be potentially eliminated with few side effects. With the help of this kind of treatment we can potentially eliminate with few side effects.

Gene therapy treatment cannot be assured of 100% safety as it is in the beginning stage and still many things have to be carried out. The medical science is still trying to find out other ways to cure and eliminate mesothelioma disease.