Surgery for Mesothelioma Patients

Your doctor may decide to remove part of the lining of the chest or abdomen and some of the tissue around it to treat your mesothelioma. Sometimes, if your condition would benefit, he or she will recommend that a lung also be removed (called pneumonectomy). Occasionally part of the diaphragm, the muscle below the lungs that helps with breathing, is also removed during surgery for mesothelioma.