All Pericardial Mesothelioma Information Faq
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The article "All Pericardial Mesothelioma Information FAQ" talks about cancer, it has been released by William Johnston.
What is pericardial mesothelioma?
Pericardial mesothelioma is a serious heart condition which consists of cancerous cells building up on the lining of the haert.
Similarly to pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, that is a terminal illness due to the importance of the area on which it grows.
What causes pericardial mesothelioma and who are most at risk?
The primary cause of pericardial mesothelioma is exposure to absestos dust and fibres.
Therefore those at risk are those who are most likely to have inhaled these daedly fibres such as construction workers and asbestos manufacturers.
Those in contact with tehse persons also have a chance of getting pericardial mesothelioma cause these persons may have asbestos fibres stuck to their clothes or hair.
What are the symptoms of pericardial mesothelioma?
The symptoms of pericardial mesothelioma change from patient to patient.
Usual symptoms include persistent coughing, coughnig up blood, shortness of breath, chest pain and palpitations. Other symptoms patients may exeprience are nausea, weight loss, vomiting and loss of appetite.
What are the treatments available for pericardial mesothelioma?
There are various different treatments for pericardial mesothelioma although none of these have a high success rate. Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, dual therapy and surgery are the treatment methods available.
Chemotherapy includes using durgs to kill off cancerous cells and radiation therapy uses doses of radiation to kill cancer cells although that is difficult in the case of pericardial mesothelioma due to the surrounding vital organs such as the heart and lungs. Dual therapy is a treatment combining radiation tehrapy with chemotherapy. Surgery comes in two forms; aggressive surgery and palliative procedures. Aggresisve surgery is a really difficult procedure and consists of removing large chunks of cancerous cells in an attempt to gain long term control over the cancer. Palliative procedures just attempts to lessen the symptoms for the patient.
How much exposure to asbestos is needed for there to be a psosibility of getting pericardial mesothelioma?
This depends on how strong and resistant the person is to disease and on the concentration of asbestos in the environment around him. It is possible to get preicardial mesothelioma from as little as a couple of months of exposure to asbestos although on average it would take a couple of years for enough asbestos fibres to build up to cause cancer.
What is the prognosis for pericardial mesothelioma?
This is highly dependent on how early and how aggressively the cancer is treated. If pericardial mesothelioma is tretaed when it has fully developed and matured then the chances of a patient's survival is really small. The prognosis could be only a couple of months.
Is there any promising research into cures for pericardial mesothelioma?
Research into cures of pericardial mesothelioma and all other forms of mesothelioma is being done in numerous research labs all over the USA. Many pharmaceutical companies are also wroking hard to research new drugs for chemotherapy. So far, research has been mostly unsuccessful.
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