Into account the situation of a seventy years old, who is a nonsmoker and otherwise fairly healthy, approaching the local physician with complaints of cough, chest congestion and weight loss. Other symptoms include difficulty swallowing May and loss of appetite. The physician has several options diagnosis, but pleural mesothelioma, a fatal cancer that originates in the lining around the lungs, can not be considered.
There are several reasons for this. Recognition pleural mesothelioma as a separate entity disease began only at the 1960s. Currently, only about 3,000 cases are reported each year in the United States. Many doctors have not seen one such case during their careers. The symptoms are similar to many afflictions less. Lead single general is that the disease may be more common in the Pacific States and the mid-Atlantic. We also know that the main cause of pleural mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos. But how much contact with the material leads to this disease is unclear. Even members of the family of a worker at risk of asbestos dust in the house his body and clothing.
This form of cancer has a long latency period and symptoms manifest only twenty to forty years or more after exposure to asbestos. Also, vitiates the possibility of a correct diagnosis.
Once the doctor removes the risk of other diseases, and follows the line of pleural mesothelioma, the patient undergoes a battery of tests and imaging procedures such as radiographs and CT scans. Accumulation of fluid in the thoracic cavity, is an indicator, but not conclusive. The application can be obtained with a pleural effusion (the membrane covering the lungs) using electron microscopy biopsy.
From pleural mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer, early detection and immediate introduction of appropriate management are essential. The possibility that a doctor can not pleural mesothelioma diagnosed or misdiagnosed, being sued for medical malpractice can not be totally excluded. But in general, applicable law is the responsibility asbestos products.
It is generally accepted that pleural mesothelioma is a disease that is difficult to diagnose. To help the doctor, the patient should inform the beginning of exposure to asbestos, if any.
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