Mesothelioma Patient

A mesothelioma patient is a patient suffering from a rare form of cancer known as mesothelioma. This disease is usually caused by direct or indirect exposure to asbestos and the disease known as asbestos or asbestos poisoning. 

Smoking is not a direct cause of mesothelioma, but a combination of exposure to smoke, and asbestos can increase the risk of mesothelioma in the lung area. 

Symptoms of mesothelioma may include shortness of breath and cough, chest pain and other symptoms such as weight loss, fever and pain in the abdomen, neck or head. Symptoms may occur several decades after exposure to asbestos, and the amount of exposure is not clearly correlated with the probability of contracting the disease. 

The diagnosis of mesothelioma is difficult because all the symptoms may be caused by other, less serious and may be supported by chest radiography and / or CT scan or MRI and biopsy. 

Patients do not recover from the disease. Median survival is usually about nine months from the filing with the survival rate five years of being around ten percent, although sometimes people survive for more than twenty years after contracting it. 

Most patients die within a year and a half know they have this disease does not cause the disease is so rapid progression, but because the diagnosis of this disease is often defined only during the later stages of the disease. 

There are many forms of support to patients, including large amounts of relevant information on the Internet, etc, and discussion groups as well as specialist medical centers and other support. 

Treatment may be expensive, sometimes totaling almost a million dollars, which is one reason why most patients take legal action against the employer who exposed to asbestos. Treatment may include combinations of radiation and chemotherapy and surgery, but radiation therapy alone has proved ineffective. 

Legal action on mesothelioma began around 1930 then increased in 1960 when the company data on the link between asbestos and mesothelioma was found. More than 500,000 asbestos claims have been filed so far. The amounts received from mesothelioma claims can be substantial and there are asbestos lawyers and lawyers working to help every patient's mesothelioma claim as much as possible. 

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