What is mesothelioma?
Pleural mesothelioma is pleural primary tumor, there are localized (mostly benign) and diffuse (all malignant) points. Which diffuse malignant mesothelioma of the chest tumor one of the worst prognosis.
The first symptom of chest pain, cough and shortness of breath as the most common. Have fever, sweating or joint pain mainly v. symptoms. About half of patients over a large number of pleural effusion with severe shortness of breath. No large pleural effusion are often more severe chest pain, common weight loss. Ordinary X-ray found that pleural effusion, and lung tumor tissue was wrapped and so on, in advanced cases may have pericardial effusion caused by heart shadow expansion and soft tissue shadow and rib destruction.
For patients with suspected malignant pleural mesothelioma, CT examination is most useful. Pleural effusion cytology are diagnostic. Routine laboratory examination, some patients may have thrombocytosis, serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level rise. For routine examination can not clearly diagnosed, and can be used to do thoracoscopic pleural biopsy. In general the majority of patients who obtain a diagnosis.
The treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma is still no effective method to tackle. Treatment methods, there are surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy is generally believed that the relatively limited for cancer patients in Phase I, advocated doing radical resection of the lung pleura. For Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ stage patients, radical surgery has no meaning, only the implementation of palliative surgery
Most patients between the ages of incidence in the 40-70 men than women.
Mesothelioma Causes
Although the reported incidence has increased over the past 20 years, mesothelioma is still a relatively rare cancer. United States each year there are about 2,000 new mesothelioma cases diagnosed.This section Transfer from: http://cdkge.com