Other questions might involve clinical trials, experimental therapies or any other issue. However, sometimes forms of treatment are used in combination. You should try to make your decision as soon as possible after diagnosis. If the cancer has not spread to too many organs, surgery can be used to remove part of the lining of the chest or abdomen. The point of this surgery is to simply remove the cancer cells from the body by removing the tissues with large numbers of cancer cells.
More serious operations can remove large parts of the lung or the diaphragm.
However, the more serious operation requires the patient to be in excellent health. If the cancer has spread to several organs, it is impossible to remove all of the tissue infected with cancer. In this case, surgery can only be used to relieve symptoms. One operation is a thoracentesis, where fluid in the chest is removed by placing a needle into the chest cavity, may help to improve comfort and breathing. This procedure does nothing to cure the cancer, only to relieve the symptoms.