Symptoms of mesothilioma

Mesothilioma is a tumor that is transformed into cancer and defunction all important functions that are performed on the body. This is a deadly disease that kills silently, the cells affected get accumulated in the body for many years and show signs of abnormality after years. This cancer is caused mainly due to the inhalation of asbestos particles over a very long period of time. The then active cancer cells begin to show its negative effects on the body and starts malfunctioning organs. Mesothilioma is a disease that attacks the patient only after the patient becomes old. According to medical records, the disease was detected in most older than 40 years. Usually symptoms mesothilioma surface only after two to three decades of time from the time that the individual has been exposed to asbestos. The symptoms do not appear soon after particles of asbestos is inhaled in large quantities, but they get accumulated in the lungs for a long period of time and take decades to react in the body, which is a tumor that was later transformed into a dangerous cancer. The symptoms can not be diagnosed and usually after they are diagnosed later than the patient is a life expectancy is one year or two. However, the survival period was also extended to five years if the symptoms have been diagnosed to be mesothilioma at a very early stage and appropriate medical treatment were taken into account. The time of five years, can only be managed by following strict routines severe medication. The life of the patient can not be saved, however, because the disease is not curable. It is absolutely fatal and has no cure so far. Symptoms of mesothilioma are not very specific, the symptoms are similar to any disorder of the lungs and symptoms are very general, they are also symptoms of many small, harmless disease. This is the real reason why the disease may not be diagnosed in the early stages and, therefore, much-needed steps to the right treatment can not be taken. In general, the symptoms are shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and weight loss. There are two types of mesothilioma, mesothilioma pleural and peritoneal mesothilioma, symptoms of two different types of mesothilioma are: -- 1.) Pleural mesothilioma-chest pain due to the formation and accumulation of fluid in the chest that causes short breath, hoarseness, coughing up blood and difficulty swallowing. It also shows some pain in the upper abdomen, arm or shoulder. 2.) Peritoneal mesothilioma the symptoms of this situation are weight loss, abdominal pain and swelling of the abdomen due to the concentration of liquids. Intestinal obstruction is also a symptom, along with anaemia, fever, blood clots.