When a physician has diagnosed a patient as having mesothelioma, they will immediately schedule an appointment, for that patient, with a cancer specialist. Mesothelioma symptoms do not usually present until many years after initial exposures to asbestos. For this reason, it is important for anyone to report to their doctor any asbestos exposure they may have had at any time in their life.
Asbestos is dangerous because the fibres can be inhaled or ingested. If it has been inhaled, studies have proven that cancer of the lungs will certainly develop over time. Abdominal cancers, appearing in the small and large intestine as well as in the liver and kidneys are a certainty if asbestos fibres had been ingested. Combining asbestos exposure with a history of exposure to radiation and smoking are factors which are certain to cause cancer in later years.
People who have had asbestos exposure may not experience any symptoms for over 20 years. The type of symptom will demonstrate where the cancer will be growing. The areas usually affected are the lungs, the heart, the abdominal cavity and in rare cases, the testicles.
The testicular form of the disease will present as testicular lumps. When the disease presents in the lungs, it is the pulmonary form of the disease, a dry cough will have developed. There will often be blood in the sputum, (hemoptysis), inexplicable weight loss, persistent fevers, sweating, difficult breathing, fatigue, shortness of breath and sometime lumps developing under the skin in the chest area.
Diarrhea and constant vomiting will signify the presence of the disease in the abdomen. Pain in the gut, fever and fatigue are also symptoms. A distended belly and lumps under the skin in the abdominal area are signs of the disease there.
Chest pain and heart palpitations signify that the disease is affecting the layers of tissue covering the heart, called the pericardium. Fevers, shortness of breath and fatigue are also mesothelioma symptoms. The mesothelioma has progressed to a fairly advanced stage, however, once any of these symptoms present in the heart, the chest, the abdomen or the testicles.
Asbestos is dangerous because the fibres can be inhaled or ingested. If it has been inhaled, studies have proven that cancer of the lungs will certainly develop over time. Abdominal cancers, appearing in the small and large intestine as well as in the liver and kidneys are a certainty if asbestos fibres had been ingested. Combining asbestos exposure with a history of exposure to radiation and smoking are factors which are certain to cause cancer in later years.
People who have had asbestos exposure may not experience any symptoms for over 20 years. The type of symptom will demonstrate where the cancer will be growing. The areas usually affected are the lungs, the heart, the abdominal cavity and in rare cases, the testicles.
The testicular form of the disease will present as testicular lumps. When the disease presents in the lungs, it is the pulmonary form of the disease, a dry cough will have developed. There will often be blood in the sputum, (hemoptysis), inexplicable weight loss, persistent fevers, sweating, difficult breathing, fatigue, shortness of breath and sometime lumps developing under the skin in the chest area.
Diarrhea and constant vomiting will signify the presence of the disease in the abdomen. Pain in the gut, fever and fatigue are also symptoms. A distended belly and lumps under the skin in the abdominal area are signs of the disease there.
Chest pain and heart palpitations signify that the disease is affecting the layers of tissue covering the heart, called the pericardium. Fevers, shortness of breath and fatigue are also mesothelioma symptoms. The mesothelioma has progressed to a fairly advanced stage, however, once any of these symptoms present in the heart, the chest, the abdomen or the testicles.
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