Mesothilioma is a tumor which transforms into cancer and
defunction all the important functions that are carried out in the body. It is
a fatal disease which kills silently, the affected cells get accumulated in the
body for long years and show signs of abnormality after years. This cancer is
mainly caused due to the inhalation of asbestos particles for a very long
period of time. The then active cancer cells starts showing their adverse
impact on the body and the organs starts malfunctioning. Mesothilioma is a
disease which attacks the patient only after the patient becomes old. As per
the medical records, the disease is mostly detected at the age of above 40
years.
Generally the symptoms of mesothilioma surface only after two to three
decades of time from the time the individual has been exposed to asbestos. The
symptoms don’t appear soon after the asbestos particles has been inhaled in
large quantities, but they get accumulated in the lungs over a long period of
time and take decades to react in the body, which forms a tumor which later
transforms into a dangerous cancer. The symptoms can’t be usually diagnosed and
after they are diagnosed the maximum period the patient is expected to live is
a year or two. But the period of survival is also stretched till five more
years if the symptoms have been diagnosed to be mesothilioma at a very early
stage and corresponding medical treatments have been taken into consideration.
The time of five years can only be managed by following rigorous routines of
severe medication. The life of the patient cannot be saved though, since the
disease is not curable. It is absolutely fatal and does not have any cure till
date.
The symptoms of mesothilioma are not very specific; the
symptoms resemble any disorder in the lungs and are very general symptoms which
are also the symptoms of many small, harmless diseases. This is the very reason
why the disease can’t be diagnosed at its initial stages and thus the much
needed steps for proper treatment can’t be taken. The general symptoms are
shortness of breath, pain in the chest, cough, and loss in weight. There are
two types of mesothilioma, pleural mesothilioma and peritoneal mesothilioma,
the symptoms for two different types of mesothilioma are:-
1.)Pleural mesothilioma- pain in chest because of formation
and accumulation on fluid in the chest
which further causes short breath, hoarseness, coughing up of blood and
difficulty in swallowing. Also shows some pain in upper abdomen, arm or
shoulder.
2.) Peritoneal mesothilioma- the symptoms of this are loss
in weight, abdominal pain and swelling of abdomen due to fluid concentration.
Bowel obstruction is also a symptom along with anemia, fever, blood clots.
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