Mesothelioma Cancer

The internal organs of the human body are in a structure called mésothélium protective pouch. Examples of mesothelilial membranes are the peritoneum (abdominal organs), the pleura (lung), and the pericardium (heart).

Under certain conditions, the cells of the protective cover and uncontrolled division of cancer cells. This disease is also known as mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by prolonged exposure to asbestos dust.

The disease, however, occur in people, in the shipyards, mines and factories of asbestos, the industries that produce the products on the basis of asbestos, and the company, the heating and construction. Approximately 3000 cases occur each year in the United States, and most patients are between 50-70 years. The statistics show that men are usually affected, including more than whites of African-Americans.

Initially studied in the late 1700 in the study were actually only in the year 1960. Tumors of the Mesothelioms can benign or stupid. The clever mesothelioma are divided into three types:

• Epithelioid what 50-70% of mesothelioma.

• Sarcomatoid, representing 7-20%.

• variable or two-phase flow, was 20-35%.

When asbestos fibers are necessary in the lungs of her travels through the great avenues for the attainment of the small passages and the pleura them. In the pleura damage: mésothéliales cells, which lead to cancer, lung tissue caused lung cancer and the development of scar tissue in the lungs amiantose. When asbestos fibers are swallowed, through the abdominal cavity and cause peritoneal mesothelioma.

Research has shown that the disease manifests itself after 20-50 years have been exposed to asbestos dust. The symptoms are not specific for the disease, but a patient can develop:

• breathe.

• pain in the chest, for the sealing believes, by the accumulation of fluid in the pleura.

• The back pain.

• Enflure the face and the poor.

• Loss sensors.

• muscle weakness.

• nausea.

• vomiting.

• An unexplained weight loss can be.

• The after a dry cough.

• neck pain.

• anaemia.

• fever.

• constipation.

• The problems of coagulation.

Since the highest for benign disease, the patient is often not the symptoms. It is recommended to consult a doctor if any of these symptoms persist, or if you suspect that you are consciously or unconsciously asbestos.

A doctor:

• Do you have a medical history and tries to recognize the symptoms and risk factors.

• Make a complete physical examination and verification of characters:

O Épanchement pleural effusion, the accumulated fluid in the chest cavity.

O fluid in the abdominal cavity.

O pericardial, fluid in the wall of the heart.

• Take an X-ray of the lungs and in the review of the thickening of the pleura, the calcification, lung and cracks reduced.

• Ask for a computed tomography to determine the location, size and extent of the problem, if everything is suspected.

• Recommend tests samples of tissues and fluids pleural fibrosis.

Other risk factors are smoking a cigarette or cigar, the exposure to radiation that the exhibition of zeolite, which is comparable to asbestos or exposure to infections caused by virus simien 40, a virus simien.

Those who work in an environment, at risk, protective clothing, the surroundings are regularly tested to the asbestos particles in the air, and ensure that the medical tests regularly report to the doctor and very bad, the progress .

His awareness of the disease and its problems.