Radiation therapy is one of three standard treatments for mesothelioma. The others are surgery and chemotherapy. All three are used for both curative and palliative procedures. Although none of these treatments can cure the disease, they can be used to control its spread. Used together in a multiphasic approach, they can effectively slow its development […]
While most people think of mesothelioma as a form of lung cancer, it’s important to be aware that it can also appear in the lining around the abdomen and the lining around the heart. Neither one of these kinds of mesothelioma are very treatable, and the prognosis is poorer for people who are diagnosed with
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After exposure to asbestos fibers, it may take anywhere from twenty to fifty years for symptoms of malignancy to surface. If symptoms do surface before that time, they are often discounted or misdiagnosed as something else such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, pneumonia, or even the flu. Unfortunately, a misdiagnosis allows the real
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The idea of mesothelioma sounds scary, and a lot of people hear and fear the term, but they don’t know what the disease really is or how a person gets it. If you have never been exposed to asbestos, you should certainly stop worrying about contracting mesothelioma, because the disease is linked to asbestos exposure.
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There are many types of cancers out there. Some are somewhat hereditary and cannot be guarded against; however, there are certain types of cancers that we can prepare for. One of these cancers is called mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a cancer that comes because of continual exposure to asbestos. I am sure that all of these
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There is nothing easy about discovering the existence of cancer in your body. Perhaps nothing can describe the way you might feel as the doctor describes to you the discovery made. What comes next, however, can be devastating. A prognosis is an educated estimate on the outcome of a particular illness. Usually, cancer prognoses are
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A diagnosis of Mesothelioma can be a very frightening thing, but one of the first things that most people want to know once they get over the initial shock is what kinds of treatment options they have. They intend to fight their disease, rather than just let it take them over, and that’s a great
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As awareness regarding Mesothelioma increases, it’s understandable that your curiosity does as well. There are a lot of people out there wanting to know more about this unique illness. In order to learn more about Mesothelioma, you first have to know where it comes from. Mesothelioma is a unique form of cancer. Mesothelioma usually invades
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Recently, I was watching television on a Sunday afternoon and I stumbled upon a television program that was highlighting the effects of mineral called asbestos. The program talked about the various uses of asbestos in construction; however, what the program focused exclusively on was the fact that when disturbed asbestos can wreck much havoc. The
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Once mesothelioma has progressed to its final stages, physicians generally shift their treatment plans from curative to palliative. In some ways, this is not much of a shift. Most palliative procedures have some sort of curative component to them, but mesothelioma is an incurable cancer and once it reaches stage four it is ineligible for
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