Pleural Mesothelioma Symptoms

Mesothelioma is asbestos-related malignancy (cancer), which is almost always fatal.Malignant from mesothelioma cells lining is pleural and peritoneal cavities and the pericardium and the Tunica vaginalis.

Pleural mesothelioma is the most common and accounts for 70% of all cases of mesothelioma and peritoneal mesothelioma forms, the remaining 30%. Affected pericardial mesothelioma and mesothelioma is Tunica vaginalis are rare. This is due to the fact that asbestos fibers, which are the main cause of mesothelioma, it is inhaled and the lungs are organs that are first exposed to asbestos.

Mesothelioma is of the occupational diseases, such as it is usually in people exposed to asbestos at work, although it can occur in people without a history of asbestos exposure. Asbestos has been involved in more than 80% -90% and mesothelioma cases. At present there is no definitive cure for mesothelioma. The predictions of peritoneal mesothelioma is worse than the peritoneal mesothelioma.

Signs and symptoms of pleural mesothelioma

Pleural mesothelioma is the most common form of mesothelioma accounts for 70% of all cases of mesothelioma. Pericardial mesothelioma constitutes a majority of the remaining 30% of the cases. So the signs and symptoms related to these two diseases are listed below pleural mesothelioma most common symptoms are:

* Chest pain
* Shortness of breath (difficulty breathing)

The above symptoms are usually parallel and are the first to start running. But in some individual cases only in my present difficulty breathing without chest pain.

* Some of the symptoms are late
* Hoarseness voice information
* Dysphagia (difficulty swallowing)

Late symptoms of the disease is usually means that at a later stage, and this is a bad sign. Symptoms of other less common are:

* Weight loss
* Sweating
* Thorax mass

These symptoms are not full, but they are encountered. Pleural mesothelioma may cause many other symptoms of the disease extent as the surrounding structures of the heart, great vessels in the chest.

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