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Mesothelioma, more precisely malignant mesothelioma, is a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining that covers many of the body's internal organs, the mesothelium. It is usually caused by exposure to asbestos.
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or they have been exposed to asbestos dust and fiber in other ways. It has also been suggested that washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos can put a person at risk for developing mesothelioma. Unlike lung cancer, there is no association between mesothelioma and smoking, but smoking greatly increases the risk of other asbestos-induced cancers.
2,000 cases of mesothelioma are diagnosed each year in the UK and the number of people who die from it is expected to rise to a peak between 2011 and 2015. This is because the disease can take 15-40 years to develop, and blue and brown asbestos (thought to be the most likely types to cause mesothelioma) were banned only in the late 1908s.
There are different reasons that make diagnosis of mesothelioma cancer in its early stages really difficult. The first reason is the symptoms. Mesothelioma cancer symptoms can have a latency period from 20 to 50 years after the first exposure to asbestos, which only means that by the time the symptoms start showing up, the cancer is already in its advanced stage. Even when the symptoms are already present, the diagnosis remains to be a slow process. This is because there are different diseases that mirror the signs and symptoms found in patients diagnosed with mesothelioma, and because of this, this disease is often the last stop - often when the patient does not mention about the possibility of asbestos exposure.
One study found those 3 years after diagnosis, 1 in 10 people had survived, and after 5 years, survival rate was 1 in 20. However, other studies found a much better survival rate, with one study finding that 1 in 3 mesothelioma patients survived for 5 or more years, although this study only looked at people with epithelioid type tumors.
There is currently no cure for mesothelioma, but a range of drugs and treatments such as chemotherapy can help to delay the symptoms of the disease.
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Lung-Mesothelioma-Asbestos. Mesothelioma typically has a long latency period, meaning that many years will pass between exposure to asbestos and the development of the disease
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