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Asbestos Effects for Pleural Mesothelioma

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Asbestos Effects for Pleural Mesothelioma

Asbestos, also known as asbestos is a group of fibrous metamorphic minerals. They are composed of double chain silicates.

Asbestos minerals have long, strong fibers that can be separated and are flexible enough to be intertwined and also resist high temperatures.

Because of these special characteristics, asbestos has been used for a wide variety of manufactured products, mainly in construction materials (tiles for roofing, tiles, paper products and asbestos cement products), friction products (automobile clutch, brake, transmission components), heat-resistant textile materials, containers, packaging and coatings, protective equipment, paints, vermiculite or talc …. is also present in some foods.

It has been determined by international medical bodies that asbestos-related products / asbestos cause cancer with high mortality and therefore, for decades, has prohibited its use in all developed countries, although it is still used in some countries developing.
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Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Chemotherapy with a new antifolate, pemetrexed.

Chemotherapy of malignant pleural mesothelioma unresectable was approved in Europe in 2004. This combination of cisplatin to a new multi-target antifolate, pemetrexed (Alimta), improves length and quality of survival. In monotherapy, Alimta is indicated as second line treatment of lung cancer in non-small cell.
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), said Dr. P. Ruffié (IGR, Villejuif), has long been a kind of orphan disease without treatment. It is mainly caused by exposure to asbestos while also discussing the role of genetic predisposition, ionizing radiation, some viruses. Its incidence increased by 25% every three years because of its development time (latency from thirty to forty years), the worst is yet to come: a peak of incidence is planned for 2020.

Late diagnosis.

Occupational diseases related to asbestos are underreported (25%) as the industries concerned, they could be underway to relocate in the world. The diagnosis is delayed (98% of cases) at a time when surgery and radiotherapy are not possible, the prognosis is poor, little changed by different chemo-and radiotherapy isolated tried so far. The median survival of epithelioid MPM (68% of MPM) is ten to seventeen months in the absence of any treatment, which means that half the patients died within this period, the sarcomatous MPM is resistant to treatment ( survival of four to seven months). (more…)

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Pleurakanker of Mesothelioma

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Pleurakanker or mesothelioma cancer is a rare but very much in the news is: exposure to asbestos is the major cause of pleurakanker, a serious cancer of the lung membranes that causes symptoms until late and against which little can begin. In Belgium, 100 cases of mesothelioma diagnosed each year. The incidence increases with age and men are three times more frequently affected than women.

What are the causes?

The pleura and the pleura is a double, smooth and slippery membrane around the lungs is: one membrane (pleural) holds the lungs and other membrane holds the chest wall.
Inhalation (inhalation or inspiration) sets the chest (or chest) out. Thanks pleural as an interface serving, put the lungs. The pleura may be an outbreak of cancer. Pleurakanker is 50 to 70% of the cases due to exposure to asbestos, mostly in the context of a professional (insulation, textiles, construction, filters). Pleurakanker is not caused by smoking.
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Diffuse Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma or DMM, a rare but very aggressive type of cancer. It comes in the thin layer of tissue. The pleura, the lining of the chest cavity and lungs once diagnosed with a DMM, but most patients do not have one years beyond this type of cancer survival is more common in men than in women and in elderly people with DMM. Most people have a history of exposure to asbestos, but if they are not aware that such exposure has occurred. It may not be aware that in risk are a patient with DMM is usually one or more of the following symptoms: chest pain, shortness of breath, unexplained weight loss, fatigue, fever, cough, or an x-ray usually shows that. The Pleuragewebe has thickened around the lungs the development of a number of small lumps or cancer growth. Sometimes it can be a big growth market, if one takes a biopsy of cancerous tissue.
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The Facts about Pleural Mesothelioma

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Pleural Mesothelioma is the most common form of mesothelioma by far and makes 75% of all cases of pleural mesothelioma affects the respiratory areas of the body such as the lungs Specifically, the cancer attacks the lining of the lungs and ribs called the pleura hence the name pleural mesothelioma.

Pleural mesothelioma, the most common form of mesothelioma by far and makes 75% of all cases of pleural mesothelioma affects the respiratory system to said areas of the body such as the lungs more precisely, attacks the cancer of the lining of the lungs called the pleura and ribs. Hence the name pleural mesothelioma, the main cause of pleural mesothelioma, asbestos exposure, only a few months after the deadly exposed to asbestos dust and fibers without protection can lead to pleural mesothelioma thirty to fifty years later. Older men in age sixty to seventy are most at risk to asbestos because it was the generation that have worked with asbestos with little protection against dust and fibers due to the long latency period of pleural mesothelioma (30-50 years).
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Pleural Mesothelioma

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

pleural mesothelioma

Pleural Mesothelioma is the most common, its incidence being 9 times higher than the peritoneal mesothelioma. It is more common in men than in women, being the age of onset of symptoms between 50 to 70 years with a latency period of 20 to 40 years. In 80% of cases the etiology is exposure to asbestos dust. Other possible causes of mesothelioma are radiation therapy and polio vaccines contaminated with simian virus SV40. The pleural mesothelioma is about 3% of malignant neoplasms of the pleura, and when the diagnosis is made rapidly and its course is invariably fatal, usually during the next two years.

The most common clinical presentation is diffuse chest pain, which occasionally can be pleuritic or radiating to the shoulder accompanied by pleural effusions. Dyspnea, cough, weakness, malaise and fatigue are usually in advanced stages of disease. In 89% of cases, the abnormal electrocardiogram abnormalities being more frequent sinus tachycardia (42%), ventricular or atrial arrhythmias (17%) and blockage of a branch bundle (30%)

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