WHAT IS MESOTHELIOMA?

By: Unknown on May 27, 2018

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Cancer has indeed become one of disease widespread these years. Growing number of people affected by cancer, made a lot of people also want to know the different types of cancer that may threaten their health, one of them is mesothelioma.

Mesothelioma is one of the lung cancer which is quite rare, but the most dangerous and deadly that usually occur on the membrane around the lungs, called the pleura. The main cause of cancer that attacks the cells of the lungs called mesothelium this is exposure to asbestos dust.

Asbestos can be shaped minerals, fibers, roof boards, and a wide range of processed products asbestos can cause dust and is inhaled along with air. This usually happens in the environment industry, construction sites, carpentry and building material stores. When asbestos dust and fibers are inhaled into the lungs, then the dust will stop in the lungs.

If things continue like inhaling asbestos dust, then the dust will gather and settles in the lungs. This became the cause of cancer and the risk will increase if you are a smoker or have a family history of cancer.

Cancer will be very deadly because the average survival time for malignant mesothelioma mesothelioma or cancer ranged from 4 to 18 months, and about 10 percent of patients live at least five years after being diagnosed.

Symptoms of mesothelioma occur at the clinic are:

Pain nonpleuritic chest wall and dyspnea (chest pain) is the most common symptom occurs in malignant mesothelioma, (Approximately sixty to ninety percent of patients experience symptoms of dyspnea or chest pain.)

In patients with a malignant mesothelioma, pleural effusion physical findings are usually known with percussion and auscultation.

In rare cases, malignant mesothelioma manifests as Horner's syndrome, brachial plexopathy, cord compression, or superior vena cava syndrome. Respiratory failure or infection from the development of mesothelioma usually caused in death.

The main areas which often occurs in the pleura (87%), peritoneum (5.1%), and pericardium (0.4%).

So if you are one of those who works in the field of industrial asbestos, or often enough having direct contact with asbestos, then it's good checked yourself before mesothelioma invades.