What?

Mesothelioma the medical limit for lung cancer or food belly, and is usually caused by exposure to asbestos.

Asbestos is a kind of building materials and thermal insulation products in ceiling tiles. Service highlight of asbestos in the 1950s - 1970s, but in the late 1960s, concerns about the health consequences of exposure to asbestos began to arise which, the amount of the Asbestos produced in the following two decades. But even if the new measures, where you to be there, many schools and public buildings still contain asbestos.

Banks of small asbestos in the air and evaporation can not continue to be exposed to the air for long. These fibers, if inhaled into the body, are toxic. People are most at risk: –

People working in factories, the production of asbestos, a large exposure to asbestos and are most threatened, the development of asbestosis or mesothelioma.

Family members of asbestos workers in the workplace are vulnerable to the exposure of the house dust of asbestos, which workers in his clothes or skin.

Those who live near a factory of asbestos are also at risk.

Symptoms of the disease appear May, between twenty and fifty years after exposure, which explains why so many new cases of this form of cancer in the light now. Many people who are not in contact with asbestos
Decades, are now signs of this terrible disease.

As in many forms of cancer, mesothelioma can spread rapidly. The symptoms are shortness of breath, cough, weight loss and chest pain. When diagnosed early enough, the tumor can be removed surgically and with chemotherapy and radiation, but is often possible.

However, in more advanced cases, treatment is usually not possible. In such cases, chemotherapy and can be used in addition to other treatments for pain, to soothe the symptoms. Where healing is not possible, the average survival time is between four and eighteen months, depending on the stage of the tumor and the overall health of the patient.

I was invited to write, mesothelioma because I lived as a child near a factory product, asbestos, and I personally know the families, victims because of this terrible disease.

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