Dysphagia is associated to other symptoms of mesothelioma, including chest pain, malnutrition and severe cases in the weight loss or loss of appetite.
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Dysphagia is associated to other symptoms of mesothelioma, including chest pain, malnutrition and severe cases in the weight loss or loss of appetite.
Weight loss
Posted by reham on 8/01/2012 10:39:00 PM
With the development of the disease, it may be weight loss becomes more dramatic and further weaken the patient. Depending on the location and submitted to the cancer, and could explain the loss in weight, understood and managed. With malignant mesothelioma, and weight loss occurs as a result of the impact of cancer on the devices involved.
Pleural effusion
Posted by reham on 7/27/2012 06:34:00 AM
If there is someone who has symptoms of shortness of breath,
dysphagia, chest pain, and should ask whether there is a history of exposure to
asbestos for long periods or not. In the presence of all these symptoms and
asbestos disease is usually a diagnosis. However, in some cases can progress to
asbestos disease mesothelioma.
Usually indicates the diagnosis of mesothelioma is displayed
in a number of troublesome symptoms that can severely affect quality of life of
the patient. One of those symptoms is pleural effusion, and the accumulation of
fluid in the pleural space, who knows that surrounds the lung. It can make the
expansion of the liquid in the lungs, causing difficult pain in the chest and
dry cough in the patient, leading to difficulty in breathing.
Anemia is generally low level of hemoglobin in the blood of the normal level. Or decrease in the number of red blood cells which contain hemoglobin, which leads to lack of oxygen and thus a patient complains of fatigue.
There are three main types of anemia
- Hemolytic anemia
- Anemia caused by blood loss
- Anemia caused by a defect in the production of red blood cells
All types of cancer, mesothelioma consists of a very small percentage does not exceed 5% of the total cancer diagnosis, and medical community is expected that this number will increase rapidly over the next two decades. With exposure to asbestos for long periods and continuous, the particles can become attached to the mesothelium, or lining of internal organs and embrace for decades. However, there is a rare cancer mesothelioma diagnosis where exposure to asbestos was not present in the patient's life. Severe nausea that occurs during the first day after treatment and often have chemotherapy .
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