Mesothelioma Cancer

Continued from Part 1

If the suspect is Erguß for certain infections or cancer, a sample of the liquid, the idea of whether benign or malignant. However, four of the five tests can be less cancer. Finally, the biopsy of the pleura with a needle or by an operation confirms the diagnosis of Mesothelioms.

For the abdominal mesothelioma, an abdominal X-ray checked the liquid in your stomach.

Sometimes an X-ray show not only the martyrdom, but also the mass, or the collection of signs, asbestos, plates and pleurales calcifications or scar by asbestosis and chronic inflammation.

Drain the liquid from needles in the chest or abdominal cavity. The name is thoracocentesis vacuuming or pleural fibrosis of the breast, and abdoparacentesis peritoneal aspiration or in the abdomen.

In modern days, CT (computer tomography) scan is more frequently. CT is a device, the X-ray image shows images of the slices of your body. Tomodensitométrie the chest or the abdomen shows the swelling of organs, which caries, and the lymph nodes. A contrast ratio of tincture can help to the analysis. Tomodensitogrammes show pleural effusion, pleural effusion thickening, pleural fibrosis calcification, the spread of the tumor in the chest wall. But CT is not really distinguish the benign disease that asbestos, lung cancer and mesothelioma. The doctors have also lead to action, for the computed tomography, the needle desire of the masses suspicious pleural mesothelioma.

Thoracoscopie is the procedure when a surgeon makes small notch in the chest wall between the two coasts and looks through a thoracoscope (a tool with a video camera). The biopsy (tissue sample) is in a laboratory to the cancer cells.

Bronchoscopy, the physician may look into the airway. A thin flexible hose (bronchoscope) allows samples of tissues and sent to a laboratory for the testing of cancer cells.

Médiastinoscopie controls funds coat (the zone with heart in the chest, large blood vessels, lymph nodes, esophagus, nerve, etc.). Médiastinoscopie allows for the removal of the lymph nodes in the body after the metastases.

The Laparoscopy is a surgical procedure where doctors look in your stomach with a small camera with a hose. The surgeons are biopsy suspicious areas. The bioptate (the sample of the tissue) in the laboratory. A doctor under the microscope. Laparoscopy can be a small cut in the skin of your abdomen. Another name for the same procedure is peritoneoscopy. The tool is peritoneoscope appointed.

A needle in the abdomen area and removal of liquids in the name paracentesis a needle in your chest to drain the fluid and will thoracentèse.

The MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan is a photo cut out of your body. That is better than X-ray or computed tomography, as there is no radiation in your body. But it requires a lot of time. It may take up to 20 minutes. And some people are afraid to stay in the machine for half an hour for the exam. In addition to the MRT has a limit. The test requires avoid metals in your body (such as seals made of metal and other metallic implants). The IRM is not a test program, so sometimes it is not ordered. Magnetic resonance imaging is commonly arranged in order to determine the extent of the tumor in the area of surgery. The MRI also easier than CT shows swelling of the lymph nodes and the surface of the membrane, and it is important for the planning of surgery.

Positron emission tomography (PET) recently came for the diagnosis of various types of cancer and mesothelioma so. PET uses of radioactive materials, which emits positrons. City mesothelioma is on the pleura. Advanced mesothelioma in the lungs, the wall of the chest, abdomen and lymph nodes.

Pathology examination of the samples under a microscope reviewed biopsy It is difficult to diagnose mesothelioma sometime. The cells of the tumor are different species. These cells can be like other types of cancer. Péritonéale cells as pleural mesothelioma, or other types of lung cancer and ovarian cancer. Epithelioid kind mesothelioma is more frequent and better, for longer than an aggressive type sarcomateuse. Biphasique that mesothelioma is a mixture of the two.

The doctors and scientists have proposed a number of immunological decision-makers to find mesothelioma, but the majority of the markers are not very precise. Just to signal: Epithelial membrane antigen, the CEA (carcino-antigen √ very inaccurate, it can in many cancers), Calretinin, Mesothelin, Cytokératine, ostéopontine and some others.

So, to summarize, the tests carried out by the doctors:

* X-Rays

* Tomodensitométrie

* Thoracocentesis

* Paracentesis

* Thoracoscopy

* Bronchoscopy

* IRM

* Media-Tino’s Copy

* Laparoscopy

* All types of biopsy

The diagnosis is made after a careful evaluation of symptoms, physical examination and imaging in the biopsy.

The Mesothelioma is a malignant tumor of the mésothélium caused by exposure to asbestos fibers. Because mesothelioma is very hard to control, and is known for his late appearance of the symptoms and the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) sponsor clinical studies, which used to new therapies and effective ways to use current treatments.

The most popular method is to radiotherapy, radiotherapy also called, which means that the use of high-energy radiation to cancer cells and tumors. Radiation therapy affects only the treated during treatment. The radiation can be ‘, in which radiation through thin plastic pipes made in the area where the cancer cells are found.

A cure of the disease is an operation that the move for a portion of the wall of the abdomen and chest, or a portion of the tissue around it. When cancer in the pleura, the lung can be dismissed, in an operation called lung resection. In some cases, a part of the diaphragm, muscle, lungs breathing, which helps, will also be deleted.

Drugs against cancer used to kill malignant cells in the organism. This is called chemotherapy and consists of the introduction of a drug into a vein (intravenous, or IV). Currently, the doctors and the effectiveness of chemotherapy directly into the chest or abdomen.

There are different procedures for the treatment of Mesothelioms. In general, the type of treatment depends on the localization of cancer, the stage of the disease, the age of patients and health in general. Épanchement pleural effusion caused by heart failure or an infection can usually be fixed by the Directorate of treatment, but the test is not realized, the diagnosis and the liquid continues to build or reproduce, the doctors can pass on the chest tube drainage and chemical pleurodesis. Pleurodesis chemical is a technique in which a product is sclérosant, in the treatment. It is used to the surface pleurales abrade production of liability between the parietal and visceral pleurae, which prevents new martyrdom, with the space in the pleura. Talk is considered to be the most effective means of pleurodesis.