MESOTHELIOMA

Asbestos exposure and relative disease
Asbestos was in service of the 1800s, but of the industrialization led to its abuse as from the Forties to the 80 's.

The once inhaled asbestos particles, place firmly in fabrics of lung, causing the disease with time.

The exposure constant and prolonged to asbestos leads to a series of diseases including/understanding the asbestose, the cancer of lung, and the mesothelioma. Of the latter, the mesothelioma is mortal, always driving with death.

What is mesothelioma
The mesothelioma is a cancer which affects the membrane striping the lungs or the abdomen. It is a rare cancer and is almost always caused because of the asbestos inhalation.

The mesothelioma roughly takes 30 to 40 years to develop and show its effects. This is why the mesothelioma is seen in older patients, most of the time male. It is one of cancers more the mortals, most aggressive and painful.

Types of mesothelioma
The mesothelioma is limited most of the time to the lungs, but in rare cases it also occurs in the peritoneum when the inhaled asbestos fibres reach the stomach or the entrails.

The mesothelioma is of two types - pleural mesothelioma and mesothelioma p�riton�al.

The pleural mesothelioma affects the pl�vre (lining of the lungs). The mesothelioma p�riton�al affects the peritoneum (lining of the abdominal cavity).

Symptoms of the mesothelioma
Those suffering of the mesothelioma will have one or more following symptoms.

-- Brevity of breath which continues with the increase while the disease progresses
-- Extreme difficulty in breathing due to the compression of lung caused by the disease
-- Liquid surrounding the lungs
-- Tire not explained
-- Constant pain in the trunk which extends from soft to low register
-- Traces of blood in spittle
-- Sudden abdominal swelling and pain not explained
-- Not explained weight loss

Who is in danger
Since the mesothelioma roughly takes 30 to 40 years to develop and show its effects, the people being diagnosed today were assigned by asbestos exposure in the 60 's and 70 's.

Almost all these people had work to imply asbestos and a prolonged inhalation of asbestos fibres. Since there was no directive of safety then, it is also possible that the parents and the friends are also due affected to the inhalation of these fibres of clothing, the skin and the hair of these workmen.

To be follows a list of people to the maximum risk of mesothelioma.

-- Workers of construction
-- Those implied in the restoration of building
-- Those implied in the building of boat
-- Those implied in the rupture of boat
-- Those implied in the manufacture of the automatic components of clutch and brake
-- Those implied in the repair and the maintenance of the automatic components of clutch and brake

There is no obviousness closes binding the nicotinism to the mesothelioma, as found in the cases of the cancer of lung.

Diagnosis of the mesothelioma
The presence of the mesothelioma is usually diagnosed by making a biopsy of affected fabrics. A qualified pathologist makes an examination under the final microscope of fabric to determine the growth rate and the virulence of the tumour.

After this, a x-ray or the sweeping of MRI will be required to locate the exact sectors which are affected and possible treatment.

Is the related mesothelioma by serious asbestos
Yes. The related mesothelioma by asbestos is almost always mortal. Before the mesothelioma is diagnosed, in almost all the cases it would have deviated at the incurable levels. It is also noted it that the mesothelioma is not like sensitive to the radiation or with the chemotherapy as many other cancers are.

The bad news about the mesothelioma is that in the majority of the cases when the disease is diagnosed, the patient saw a painful life agonizingly and will die in roughly 12 to 18 months.