mesothelioma patient

A mesothelioma patient is any patient who suffers from a rare form of cancer known as mesothelioma. This disease is usually caused by either direct or indirect exposure to asbestos and is sometimes known as a disease arising from asbestos or asbestos contamination.
Smoking is not a direct cause of mesothelioma, but a combination of smoking and asbestos exposure may increase the risk of mesothelioma in the lung area.
Mesothelioma symptoms may include coughing and difficulty breathing, chest pain and other symptoms like fever, weight loss, 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 every symptom may be caused by other less serious diseases and can be supported by chest radiography and / or CT scan or MRI and biopsy.
Patients do not usually recover from illness. Median survival times are usually about nine months of the submission with the survival rate for five years, about ten percent, although occasionally people can survive for more than 20 years after contracting the disease.
Most patients die within one year and a half to find they have this disease does not cause the disease is so rapidly evolving, but because the diagnosis of this particular disease is often defined only during the late stages of 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 amounting to about one million dollars, which is one reason most patients take legal action against the employer, who exposed to asbestos. Treatment may include combinations of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and radiation treatment of surgery, but only proved to be ineffective.
The prosecution related mesothelioma began around 1930, then increased in 1960 when the firm data on the relationship between asbestos and mesothelioma was established. More than 500,000 asbestos claims have been submitted so far. The amounts received from mesothelioma claims can be considerable and there is asbestos lawyers and lawyers working to help every patient's mesothelioma claim as much as possible.