People who suffer from a mesothelioma, this is the first years have generally not in the holes. This is because the asbestos usually quite a few years inactive, and then suddenly wakes up and the first symptoms appear. The period between exposure to asbestos and the first symptoms sits, lies between 20 and 35 years. That is why we often see that asbestos cancer especially in older people (50 +) occurs, and less often not among the younger generations. When will the first patient complaints as pain / discomfort in the chest, shortness of breath and coughing experienced. These are complaints that they are in severe colds may also have, and they might not immediately explain the link with asbestos cancer. The shortness of breath that one experiences is caused by accumulation of fluid between the lung membranes, and the pain is usually at its worst when the tumor invade the chest wall. In the chest wall walk namely nerves, and which are during the ingrowth of the tumor in this wall affected. If the tumor invades into the chest wall, this forms as it were a sort of shield to the lung around, so that the lung no longer function properly (the lung volume can no longer reach its highest). Because the lung can not fill up with air, there will be shortness of breath. When mesothelioma at an advanced stage, it will be too strong start losing weight. Based on histological characteristics are 4 types of malignant mesothelioma distinguished. The epithelial, sarcomatous it, it desmoplatische and mixed (epithelial and sarcomateus) type. The last type is the most common.
Examination of mesothelioma
When the above symptoms go to your doctor, you will most likely be forwarded directly to the hospital, a visit to an oncologist (a cancer doctor). The oncologist will anamnesis you enter in order to know more about your history. There will also be asked if you previously worked with asbestos. The professions (where known) the most risk entail regarding asbestos cancer shipbuilding and heating industry. It is not obvious that you years into contact must have been with asbestos for this malignant form of cancer to be affected, even if you only occasionally in contact've been with asbestos, you have chance to mesothelioma walk on. Thus, for example, my uncle at 14 had a summer job at a skewed yard for a week, but a few years ago, when he found a mesothelioma. The people he was with has worked at least 30 years in the business were, were subsequently investigated, but none of them had a mesothelioma.When you along with your physician prior history has been taken, the doctor will perform a physical examination. There will probably be listened to your lungs and the doctor will start beating your chest. Very occasionally the tumor from the outside to see if the tumor through the chest wall to the outside has grown. However, this is very rare.When the oncologist suspects that a mesothelioma in your lung is, there are usually X-rays and an MRI. Thus, moisture and thickening of the lung membranes seen. In addition, a CT scan of the chest the oncologist more insight about the location of the mesothelioma. When all this is clear, moisture will be removed, together with a piece of the lung, to determine whether it actually goes to a mesothelioma. Typically by using a needle through the skin of moisture from the lung to suck. When this research goes, you should not shy away from the color, moisture can be a bit bloody look. A piece of lung through a small keyhole surgery will be removed.
When the above symptoms go to your doctor, you will most likely be forwarded directly to the hospital, a visit to an oncologist (a cancer doctor). The oncologist will anamnesis you enter in order to know more about your history. There will also be asked if you previously worked with asbestos. The professions (where known) the most risk entail regarding asbestos cancer shipbuilding and heating industry. It is not obvious that you years into contact must have been with asbestos for this malignant form of cancer to be affected, even if you only occasionally in contact've been with asbestos, you have chance to mesothelioma walk on. Thus, for example, my uncle at 14 had a summer job at a skewed yard for a week, but a few years ago, when he found a mesothelioma. The people he was with has worked at least 30 years in the business were, were subsequently investigated, but none of them had a mesothelioma.When you along with your physician prior history has been taken, the doctor will perform a physical examination. There will probably be listened to your lungs and the doctor will start beating your chest. Very occasionally the tumor from the outside to see if the tumor through the chest wall to the outside has grown. However, this is very rare.When the oncologist suspects that a mesothelioma in your lung is, there are usually X-rays and an MRI. Thus, moisture and thickening of the lung membranes seen. In addition, a CT scan of the chest the oncologist more insight about the location of the mesothelioma. When all this is clear, moisture will be removed, together with a piece of the lung, to determine whether it actually goes to a mesothelioma. Typically by using a needle through the skin of moisture from the lung to suck. When this research goes, you should not shy away from the color, moisture can be a bit bloody look. A piece of lung through a small keyhole surgery will be removed.
Treatment of asbestos cancer (mesothelioma)
When all the above studies were conducted and it was found that it was indeed a mesothelioma is, can the extent of the tumor, the stage of the cancer and a rough statement about life done.Unfortunately, there is no cure for asbestos cancer, which means that there is no treatment that can cure the patient. This is usually because the disease if detected early as a (very) late stage presence, that the cure is no longer possible. In the past, tried on patients with mesothelioma to operate, but it is here again stepped off. The operation was in fact very large, and the patient had a very high chance of dying during or shortly after surgery.Radiotherapy can (unfortunately) not be used, because it is insensitive to mesothelioma there. Also, the fact that the area is very large (usually half the chest or more) that radiotherapy does not help. In some cases there radiotherapy, but this is more for pain control than the malignant tumor to fight.Also chemotherapy is little or not used in people with mesothelioma, because chemotherapy provided little or no effect. Recently there has been discovered, however, that the drug pemetrexed (trade name Alimta) have a clear effect on the tumor shows. In a study of 100 patients with mesathelioom showed that pemetrexed in 41 of these patients caused the tumor mass was reduced by a percentage. When a patient is treated with pemetrexed, the drug is administered intravenously, which means that the agent is introduced directly into the bloodstream. This treatment should be every three weeks to undergo, with one for 10 minutes to an infusion of pemetrexed is connected.There are also a number of other treatment options for patients with asbestos cancer, but these treatment options generally have more disadvantages than advantages, making it very few treatments are carried out and further in this article will be discussed.Survival rates for people with mesothelioma (asbestos cancer) When one hears that one suffers from mesothelioma, which is hard. During the investigations will be reported that one possible asbestos cancer, then the patient's home probably will surf on the Internet to find information on mesothelioma more to find. As you may have read above all, there is no cure for asbestos cancer, and the mortality rate is therefore very high.80% of people with mesothelioma die within one year after discovery of the disease, and almost 19% of the remaining 20% ??will be in the second year after the confirmation of death. As you can see, the mortality rate for people with mesothelioma very high and few people survive this debilitating disease ....
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