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Symptoms of Mesothelioma

Most people with malignant mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they breathed asbestos. Others have been exposed to asbestos in a household environment, often without knowing it. The scary part is that an exposure of as little as one or two months can result in mesothelioma 30 or 40 years later.

Many people with the disease have no symptoms whatsoever. People that do show symptoms may have:

shortness of breath
chest pain
persistent cough
fever
night sweats
weight loss

Symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma may include pain or swelling in the abdomen due to a build-up of fluid, nausea, weight loss, bowel obstruction, anemia or swelling of the feet.

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE SYMPTOMS MAY BE CAUSED BY MESOTHELIOMA OR BY OTHER LESS SERIOUS CONDITIONS. ONLY A DOCTOR CAN MAKE A DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS.

What can be done to prevent the disease?

Since the 1970s, the EPA and OSHA have controlled the asbestos industry in the U.S. Asbestos was once used to keep fires from spreading and to insulate buildings. Now, other products such as flame-retardant foam are used instead. Family members and others living with asbestos workers also have an increased risk of developing mesothelioma, and possibly other asbestos related diseases,probably because of exposure to asbestos dust brought home on their clothing and hair. Asbestos workers are usually required to shower and change their clothing before leaving the workplace,in order to reduce the chance of exposing family members to asbestos fibres.

There are two major types of asbestos called chrysotile and amphibole. Scientists think that the amphibole form of asbestos is implicated as the root cause of mesothelioma. Asbestos,even the chrysotile variety, is still being removed from schools and other public buildings throughout the U.S. It is hoped that by removing the asbestos, the occurrence of mesothelioma will be greatly reduced.

Cancer in general, and Mesothelioma in particular

In the American society, cancer is the disease most feared by the majority of people within the U.S. Cancer has been known and described throughout history.

In the early 1990s nearly 6 million cancer cases and more than 4 million deaths have been reported worldwide, every year. The most fatal cancer in the world is lung cancer, which has grown drastically since the spread of cigarette smoking in growing countries. Stomach cancer is the second leading form of cancer in men, after lung cancer. Another on the increase, for women, is breast cancer, particularly in China and Japan. The fourth on the list is colon and rectum cancer, which occurs mostly in older people.

In the United States more than one-fifth of the deaths in the early '90s was caused by cancer. Only the cardiovascular diseases accounted at a higher percentage. In 1993 the American Cancer Society predicted that about 33% of Americans will eventually get cancer. In the United States skin cancer is the most dominating in both men and women, followed by prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women. Yet lung cancer causes the most deaths in men and women. Leukemia, or cancer of the blood, is the most common type in children. An increasing incidence has been clearly observable over the past few decades, due in part to improved cancer screening programs, and also to the increasing number of older persons in the population, and also to the large number of tobacco smokers--particularly in women. Some researchers have estimated that if Americans stopped smoking, lung cancer deaths could virtually be eliminated within 20 years.

The U.S. government and private organizations spent about $1.2 billion annual for cancer research. With the development of new drugs and treatments, the number of deaths among cancer patients under 30 years of age is decreasing, even though the number of deaths from cancer is growing overall.

TYPES OF CANCER

Cancer is the common term used to designate the most aggressive and usually fatal forms of a larger class of the diseases known as neoplasms. A neoplasm is described as being relatively autonomous because it does not fully obey the biological mechanisms that govern the growth and the metabolism of individual cells and the overall cell interactions of the living organism. Some neoplasms grow more rapidly than the tissues from which they arise, others grow at a normal pace but because of the other factors eventually become recognizable as an abnormal growth and not normal tissue. The changes seen in neoplasm are heritable in that these characteristics are passed on from each cell to its offspring, or daughter cells. Neoplasm occurs only in multicellular organisms.

The main classification of the neoplasms as either benign or malignant relates to their behavior. Several relative differences classify these two classes. A benign neoplasm, for instance, is harmless, but malignant is not. Malignancies grow more rapidly than do benign forms and invade adjacent normal tissues. Tissue of a benign tumor is structured in a manner similar to that of the tissue from which it is derived, malignant tissue, however, has an abnormal and unstructured appearance. Most malignant tumors, in fact, exhibit abnormalities in chromosome structure, that is, the structure of the DNA molecules that constitute the genetic materials duplicated and passed on to later generations of cells. Most important, however, benign neoplasms do not begin to grow at sites other than the point of origin, whereas malignant tumors do. The term TUMOR is used to indicate a readily defined mass of tissue that is recognizable from normal living tissue. Thus a scar, an abscess, and a healing bone callus are all designated as tumors, but they are not neoplasms.

Besides being classified according to their behavior, neoplasms can also be classified according to the tissue from which they arose, and they are usually designated by a tissue-type prefix. A general system of nonmenclature has also arisen to distinguish benign and malignant neoplasms. The designation of the benign neoplasm usually is signified by the suffix-oma added to the appropriate tissue type prefix. Malignant neoplasms are separated into two general classes. Cancers arising from such supportive tissues as muscle, bone and fat are termed sarcomas. Cancers arising from such epithelial tissues as the skin and lining the mouth, stomach, bowel, or bladder are classified as carcinomas. Examples of benign neoplasms are a lipoma (from fat tissue) and an osteoma (from bone). Malignant counterparts of these neoplasms are a liposarcoma and an osteosarcoma. The term adenoma is used to indicate a benign neoplasm of glandular tissue, and corresponding malignancies are termed adenocarcinomas.

Exceptions to this form of nomenclature include thymomas, which are either malignant or benign neoplasms of the thymus gland, and such descriptive terms as dermoid, a benign tumor of the ovary. The suffix-blatoma denotes a primitive, usually malignant, neoplasm. Leukemia, literally meaning "white blood," is the term used to designate malignant neoplasms having a major portion of their cells circulating in the blood stream. Most leukemias arise in the blood-forming tissues, such as the bone and in the lymphatic tissues of the body.

CAUSES OF CANCER

A cancer-causing agent-- chemical, biological, or physical--is termed a carcinogen. Asbestos is a known carcinogen that is believed to cause mesothelioma. Substances are labeled carcinogens if, when administered to a population of previously untreated organisms, that cause a statistically significant increase in the incidence of the neoplasms compared with the incidence in subjects that are left untreated.

Quick Facts on Mesothelioma

• About 4,000 People die from Mesothelioma every year, the rare cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
• There are currently about 3000 new cases of Mesothileoma diagnosed per year, mostly in men over the age of 40.
• It is estimated that 27.5 million Americans were exposed to asbestos between 1940 and 1979.
• Mesothilioma has a latency period of 20 to 50 years after the first exposure to asbestos.
• It is estimated that there will be about 250,000 cases of Mesothelioma before 2020.
• Through 2003, more than 700,000 People have filed claims against more than 6,000 Asbestos companies. These same companies knew of the dangers for many years before ever warning the public of those risks.
• During the 20th century, some 30 million tons of asbestos were used in industrial sites, homes, schools, shipyards and commercial buildings in the United States.
• Many asbestos-containing products remain in buildings, ships, industrial facilities and other environments where the fibers can become airborne.
• Statistics from the National Cancer Institute show that around 3000 cases of this malignant mesothelioma are reported each year in the United States , and this figure is on the increase.
• It is thought that around eight million people in the United States have been exposed to asbestos over the past half a century, and many more cases - are expected to be reported in the next 25 years.
• The first known asbestos lawsuit was in 1929 in New Jersey.

Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is a serious form of cancer caused by Asbestos. Mesothelioma is a cancer of the, pleura, which are the cells that comprise the tissue that forms a lining around the outside of the lungs and inside of the ribs. This deadly disease is also found in the cells that comprise the peritoneum around the abdominal organs.

For many years Asbestos manufacturers have tried to deny that Asbestos exposure was responsible for the disease by claiming that tobacco smoke caused Mesothelioma. Medical research has proven without a doubt that Mesothelioma is caused by asbestos exposure. It is estimated that there will be about 250,000 cases of Mesothelioma before 2020!

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