MESOTHELIOMA

What is mesothelioma
The mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer which affects the mesothelium (lining surrounding the lungs, the abdomen, or the heart).

Main cause of the mesothelioma
The main cause of the mesothelioma is direct or indirect asbestos exposure. During the asbestos exposure (invisible by the eye) the microscopic asbestos fibres enter the body by the inhalation or ingestion, making undergo a change the healthy cells of body in cancer (mesothelioma) during time.

Various types of mesothelioma
The mesothelioma is basically of three types.

-- Pleural mesothelioma
-- Mesothelioma p�riton�al
-- Pericardial mesothelioma

The pleural mesothelioma affects the pl�vre (lining surrounding the lungs). More than 80% of diagnosed mesothelioma is the pleural mesothelioma, making him the most common type of the mesothelioma.

The mesothelioma p�riton�al affects the lining surrounding the stomach. It is not also communal ground with roughly 10 with mesothelioma diagnosed by 20% lining up in this category.

The pericardial mesothelioma affects the lining surrounding the heart. It is the rarest type of mesothelioma.

Treatment of mesothelioma
Today available of treatments for the mesothelioma are surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and a combination of the three.

The most common type of treatment of mesothelioma is surgery, followed radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. A combination of these treatments are employed if it is necessary.

Choice of the type of treatment for the mesothelioma
The doctor/surgeon will decide on which type of treatment of mesothelioma to choose. This will depend which type of mesothelioma it is, the patients age and health, and in a more important way with which stage cancer was diagnosed.

The treatment for patients of mesothelioma will depend mainly on the stage of cancer.

Scaffolding of the mesothelioma
Since the most common type of mesothelioma is pleural mesothelioma, he is studied and is the only type of mesothelioma for which there is a system of scaffolding.

Once the mesothelioma is diagnosed, other tests will be carried out to discover if the cancer cells deviated with other parts of the body, and up to what point. The stage of cancer must be known so that the suitable treatment is started.

The various systems are in service for the scaffolding of mesothelioma which include/understand the following.

-- System of scaffolding of Butchart
-- System of scaffolding of TNM
-- System of scaffolding of Brigham

System of scaffolding of Butchart
The system of Butchart is oldest and was the system of scaffolding more used generally for the mesothelioma. It is based on the extent of the primary mass of tumour and divides cancer into four stages; stages I to IV.

Stage I (system of Butchart)
In stage I, the cells of cancer (mesothelioma) are present in the right or left pl�vre and sometimes also in the lung, the pericardium, or the muscle separating the trunk from the abdomen (diaphragm), all on the same side.

Stage II (system of Butchart)
In stage II, the cells of cancer (mesothelioma) invade the thoracic wall implying the oesophagus, the heart, or the pl�vre of both the sides. It could also imply the lymphatic ganglia in the trunk.

Stage III (system of Butchart)
In stage III, cancer (mesothelioma) drew aside and penetrated by the diaphragm in the lining of the abdominal cavity (peritoneum). It could also imply the current lymphatic ganglia beyond those in the trunk.

Stage IV (system of Butchart)
In stage IV, cancer (mesothelioma) drew aside in blood circulation and with the bodies and distant fabrics.

System of scaffolding of TNM
The system of TNM (T=Tumor, N=Nodes, M=Metastasis) is based on the system of Butchart, but is more detailed and precise with some minor differences between the two systems.

In TNM, T represents the size of tumour and at which distance it drew aside, NR represents the diffusion of cancer to the lymphatic ganglia, and M represents the diffusion of cancer to the distant bodies (metastasis). As in the system of scaffolding of Butchart, the severity of cancer is divided into four stages in the system of TNM; I with IV.

Stage I (system of TNM)
In stage I, the cells of cancer (mesothelioma) are present in the right or left pl�vre and sometimes also in the lung, the pericardium, or the muscle separating the trunk from the abdomen (diaphragm), all on the same side.

Stage II (system of TNM)
In stage II, cancer (mesothelioma) drew aside from the pl�vre on a side to the lymphatic ganglia on the same side beside the lungs and also probably in the lung, the pericardium or the diaphragm on the same side.

Stage III (system of TNM)
In stage III, cancer (mesothelioma) drew aside in the thoracic muscle of wall, the oesophagus, the heart, the veins, and other bodies in the trunk on the same side as the primary tumour.

Stage IV (system of TNM)
In stage IV, cancer (mesothelioma) deviated with the lymphatic ganglia in the trunk on the side opposite from the primary tumour, and could also include the pl�vre or the lung on the opposed side, the peritoneum, the bodies in the abdominal cavity or the neck. Cancer could have drawn aside in blood circulation taking cancer with the distant bodies beyond the trunk and of the abdominal cavity.

System of scaffolding of Brigham
The system of Brigham is the system of the most recent scaffolding for the mesothelioma. It takes in variables of consideration such as the resectability of statute and lymphatic tumour of ganglion (capacity to remove a tumour surgically).

The system of Brigham is also composed of four stages; I with IV.

Stage I (system of Brigham)
In stage I, cancer (mesothelioma) does not have yet affected the lymphatic ganglia and the mesothelioma is still resectable.

Stage II (system of Brigham)
In stage II, cancer (mesothelioma) has affected the lymphatic ganglia, but the mesothelioma is still resectable.

Stage III (system of Brigham)
In stage III, cancer (mesothelioma) penetrated the thoracic wall, the diaphragm, the heart, and the abdominal cavity, with the affected or unchanged lymphatic ganglia. The mesothelioma is not resectable at this stage.

Stage IV (system of Brigham)
In stage IV, cancer (mesothelioma) drew aside in the distant blood circulation and bodies and fabrics. The mesothelioma is not resectable at this stage.

Importance of the scaffolding of mesothelioma
The scaffolding plays a very important part in the treatment of mesothelioma because the doctor/surgeon will base any other drug/treatment on the reports/ratios of scaffolding of mesothelioma.

To present the width of cancer, the surgeon will require to obtain the sweeping of the sweeping of several X/CT/MRI/balayage rays of FAMILIER/combinaison ANIMAL of these sweepings.

That roughly takes 30 to 40 years for the symptoms of the mesothelioma on the surface. At this hour cancer is almost always in a stage advanced without the possible positive treatment and a rate of survival of Juste 12 to 18 months after diagnosis. The surgeons today examine new methods/drugs to treat the mesothelioma with promising results. One expects that the rate of survival after diagnosis is in rise 5 to 10 years from the 12 to 18 months current. The time of survival after diagnosis will just continue to become better and better.

If you know that you exposured with asbestos in 40 last years, but always feel the adjustment and amends, which you can do today is to obtain a made complete control of a m�decin/de surgeon considered by treating cases of mesothelioma. As described in the article, you could be diagnosed with the mesothelioma of stage I, making the treatment and the long life a possibility.