MESOTHELIOMA

What is mesothelioma
The mesothelioma is the rare shape of cancer of the membrane (mesothelium) this of the lines the lungs, the abdomen or the heart.

Causes of mesothelioma
Though the mesothelioma is cancer not such a common, it is however communal ground among those which were constantly exposed to asbestos because the asbestos exposure is the only known and established cause mesothelioma.

The asbestos inhalation explains more than 80% of all the diagnosed mesothelioma. There were examples when there was no clear bond between asbestos and the mesothelioma, driving with the conclusion that the cause was other thing.

The tests in certain cases of mesothelioma where there was no relation with asbestos indicated that the culprit could probably be radiation of certain x-rays given in the Fifties which contained chemical thorium dioxide.

The tests in those suffering of the mesothelioma in Turkey indicated the exposure to chemical zeolite.

These two cases are very rare with the diagnosis confirming almost always the cause like asbestos exposure.

Asbestos was discovered as causes mesothelioma because almost all the people initially diagnosed with this disease were one or the other minors of asbestos, workers of construction, renovators of construction, manufacturers of boat, breakers of boat, or those functioning with the clutch of car and the whole of brake. All those implied in these professions had a joint thing - asbestos exposure.

The mesothelioma is a latent disease which can take anything between 30 to 40 years to be prepared after the initial exposure. It is one of the primary reasons for which one almost always diagnoses it very late when a total treatment is impossible.

What is asbestos
Asbestos is a class of the ores which appear naturally in the fibrous form (of thin separable fibres). Asbestos are classified by category in the amphibole and chrysotile sub-groups. The amphibole has right acicular fibres and is composed of the actinolite, the anthophylite, the amosite, crocidolite, and the tremolite asbestos. The chrysotile is the asbestos which is employed more in commercial applications.

Asbestos was with me and in service since the 1800s with an energetic increase in service of the Forties by the Eighties. Increased used asbestos was due to certain astonishing properties that this group of ores contain. Some of the properties are excellent thermal resistance, excellent resistance of fire, excellent chemical resistance, and it is an excellent non-conductor of electricity. All these marvellous properties gave him ore of name �of miracle of notch �.

Asbestos was applied largely for all the kinds of insulation in the buildings and the manufacture of the boats. Because of its tensile strength it was employed to manufacture clutches and coatings of brake for cars, and also for the manufacture of the roof and the tiling for the construction trade. Having good qualities of sound-proofing it was employed intensively in ceilings of noise. The boats employed them for pipes of insulation and vapor/warm water of boiler. Asbestos was also applied largely in adhesives and paintings.

People with the maximum risk of mesothelioma
The people at the greater risk of mesothelioma are those which were constantly exposed to asbestos. Many of those which suffer from the mesothelioma do not even know it today, since the signs and the symptoms of the surface of disease 30 to 40 years after the initial exposure.

To be people follow who are at the maximum risk of mesothelioma.

-- Workmen in asbestos mines
-- People living in the great proximity with the asbestos mines
-- Workmen in the construction trade who handle asbestos containing material
-- Workmen of the companies of displacement of asbestos which were in direct contact with the asbestos dust
-- Workmen responsible for the restorations of house/building
-- Workmen implied in the building of boat
-- Workmen implied in the restoration of boat
-- Workmen implied in the rupture of boat
-- People who enter in direct contact with the workmen, particularly the friends and the members mentioned above the ones of family. The fine asbestos particles which are not seen with the naked eye obtain placed at such people hair and clothing and could be inhaled by people coming into contact with them.

If you had worked in categories mentioned above the ones of, or suspectez that you were exposed to the inhalation or the ingestion of asbestos in the Sixties or later, please return visit to a m�decin/� surgeon which specializes in the mesothelioma. You could feel today absolutely healthy, but the mortal mesothelioma could slowly increase until incurable proportions.

There is much outside there which undoubtedly knows that they were exposed to asbestos for prolonged periods, but prevents going to the doctor because of the feeling that its 10,20, or even 30 years since the exposure, and nothing could probably occur now. The asbestos exposure can take up to 40 years (sometimes even of 50) after exposure to surface.

There are tests which the doctor/surgeon will carry out to diagnose the presence of asbestos and the imminent mesothelioma. If early diagnosed (which occurs very seldom) the surgeon can be able to stop the diffusion of cancer, ensuring you of longer phase, healthier life.