Mesothelioma and General Health

Mesothelioma pleural is a type that is associated with lung cancer. It is actually a type of cancer that infects the cells of the pleura, which is the lining around the lungs, forming a thin barrier between them and chest cavity wall. This type of mesothelioma accounts for about 75% of all types of the disease.

Peritoneal mesothelioma is similar to the pleural form of the disease to the extent found in the cell barrier separating the abdominal organs from the abdominal cavity wall. This thin layer of cells called the peritoneum. This type of cancer most commonly leads to cancers of the stomach, throat, intestines and other abdominal cancers. This form of peritoneal disease represents 10-20% of diagnoses mesothelial. (more…)

“In the short term, one or two years, can trigger diseases that reduce the breathing capacity,” the pulmonologist Hermano Castro. “This happens due to an inflammatory process.”

“The lung is like a big sponge on the pipes that carry air to the interior. The trachea and the bronchi are the pipes. A sponge or lung parenchyma, are the thousands of pitches, bags, where the oxygen breathing, essential to life, is exchanged for carbon dioxide, garbage produced by the body. The sponge represents 90% of the area of the lungs”, explained the doctor Iolanda Calvo Tiberius, Tenured Professor of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, USP. Asbestos just inflames the lung parenchyma and may cause granuloma. A sponge is very elastic, so that the lungs fill with air and emptied properly. The inflammation, however, alters the tissue, rendering it fibrous. It’s like a scar that forms on the skin when we take a break. The place is harder, with less elasticity. Chronically inflamed may give rise to nodules – the granulomas. “Yet, gradually, the lung loses its ability to expand in an appropriate manner,” continues Castro. The person has shortness of breath, fatigue, cough and phlegm.

In general, after 10, 15 years of exposure to asbestos, fibrosis alters the very structure of the lung. It asbestosis or pulmonary fibrosis. The lung is “harder”, gradually losing its capacity to expand. Causes shortness of breath, back pain, fatigue, weight loss. “There’s no cure, even if the person never comes into contact with asbestos,” says Castro. “Bring slowly to death.”

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The symptoms of mesothelioma manifests itself elapsed between 20 and 40 years after the person was first exposed to asbestos. Moreover, in many cases the patient develops symptoms only two or three months before the disease has been diagnosed.

Symptoms of Pleural Mesothelioma

The restriction in breathing, cough and chest pain resulting from the accumulation of fluid in the pleural spaces (particularly in the lining of the lungs) are the most common symptoms of pleural mesothelioma. A malignant tumor of the pleural tissue is a clear sign of mesothelioma. In the later stages of this cancer patient collapses in the lungs as the excessive accumulation of air or gas in the pleural cavity and that is what is known as pneumothorax.

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The cancer is rarely found in the United States, fewer than 5000 people a year. In general, the older generation, it was found that the most affected.
Types of treatment Surgery is the first drug that The majority of patients go through. The malignant tumor masses are easily removed during the operation. A rather dangerous treatment that sends medication throughout the body to reach the areas of cancer. Further treatment with radiation, X-rays, high form. Radiation kills the cells of mesothelioma.

By Chemical Treatment is given as a pill, injected into a vein. It can also be injected into the muscle. May also be injected into the muscle. It is mainly used in the surroundings of the tumor target. During treatment, patients with extreme side effects: vomiting, hair loss, nausea, fatigue and anorexia. Side effects are very entertaining with treatment. Chemotherapy can have a one-pill treatment is succeeding. Patients have described a better experience of this kind, even for monotherapy. Special agents are used, as follows: doxorubicin, carboplatin, mitomucin, Ifosdomide cyclophosphamide and cisplatin. The response rate of these drugs range depending on the drug. The response rate of these drugs range depending on the drug. A list of prices follows below, together with the issue of drugs: 15% response doxorubicin, detrorubucin, pirarubicin and epirubicin.10% -20% – carboplatin, mitomucin, cyclophosphamide, and cisplatin Ifosdomide. 10% -20% – carboplatin, mitomucin, Ifosdomide cyclophosphamide and cisplatin. 14% – is again included cisplatin. 36% – cisplatin, a rare event that lasts between two and eight months. The response rates are shown to be very low, if you single agent chemotherapy.

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