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Several types of surgeries exist for treating mesothelioma. A pleurectomy removes part of the chest or abdominal lining and the surrounding tissue. Physicians most often use the pleurectomy as a palliative procedure to relieve pain and prevent pleural effusion, or the build-up of fluid between the lungs and the chest cavity.

Peritoneal mesothelioma is also known as abdominal mesothelioma. In simple words, peritoneal mesothelioma relates to cancer of the lining of abdomen and other abdominal structures. It is also the least common type of mesothelioma and occurs only in 30% to 35% of diagnosed cases in 100 to 500 cases normally. The cells of the mesothelium create fluid, but the cancer causes them to overproduce and this creates a lot of fluid causing infection in the abdominal cavity.

Signs and symptoms of mesothelioma depend upon the area of the body which is infected. Pleural mesothelioma or cancer of the lining of the lungs and chest cavity often produce shortness of breath, cough, fever, pain in the lower back, trouble swallowing, and unexplained weight loss and tiredness.

Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs. This is because of heavy exposure to asbestos, especially workers working in mines. Asbestosis may increase to become deadly cancer or mesothelioma in the long term and that is why it is most often called a SLOW KILLER.

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It has been concluded that the cause of my disease was 25 years of my husband working as a carpenter and coming home with dust-filled clothes. I always assumed it was drywall dust; in-fact, it was asbestos… Being the home-maker I was, I routinely did laundry for the family several times a week. Apparently this simple, mundane task that seemed so harmless for all those years, was like breathing in deadly air in the mistaken ‘safety’ of my own home.