Asbestos and Cancer

Basically there are three common types of mesothelioma, which can damage the human body, and the influence of pleural Mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma and pericardial mesothelioma.

• Pleural Mesothelioma

and “the most common, occurs at high speed. This is an abnormal distribution of mesothelial cells, malignant and spread in the environment, what the complications in other organs body.In cases malignant pleural mesothelioma, cancer, and can be removed surgically and less risky. Motif , when the crime is very serious, and tend to reduce the patient’s life expectancy.

In this case, an accumulation of fluid caused by cancer, pleural thickening pleura.As began reducing lung capacity and not enough Respiration. As a result of patients with pleural mesothelioma have difficulty breathing normally. When cancer starts in the outer wall of the chest and ribs distribute, patients also felt pain in the chest.

In addition to these programs are also common symptoms such as cough, fever, fatigue, weight loss is described, loss of appetite. Treatment of pleural mesothelioma little more complicated and more difficult to achieve than other types.

• Peritoneal Mesothelioma

and patients’ second most common type of mesothelioma in humans. If, as a rule, if the patient is exposed to asbestos and are known to affect the peritoneal membrane. With the type of cancer have symptoms similar to suffering from pleural mesothelioma. Symptoms include abdominal pain and swelling, fever weight causes an accumulation of fluid around the development of the peritoneum.

The presence of peritoneal mesothelioma can be confirmed by biopsy, in which the X-ray and CT may be useful in early diagnosis. In addition, microscopic examination carried out by special stains. Treatment can be provided at this stage of diagnosis using a combination of chemotherapy, radiotherapy or other surgery to reduce the size of the spread of tumors.

• Pericardial Mesothelioma

This type of Mesothelioma is the rarest of all types of mesothelioma that affects people. As the name suggests, is a cause of cancer in the pericardial membrane and form a layer of cardiac symptoms, accompanied by chest pain, chronic coughing and an accumulation of fluid around the heart palipitations with symptoms similar to those described in other types of mesothelioma.

Threatning Compared with other types of mesothelioma, a low life expectancy, if diagnosed in time, with the appropriate operations.