Mesothelioma (also called asbestos
lung cancer) is a disease that causes deadly tumors to develop in the
chest and lung cavity. This site is intended as a guide to patients with
mesothelioma, providing updates on the latest therapy and innovations in
treating this deadly cancer.
Cancer develops when cells in a part
of the body begin to grow out of control. Although
there are many kinds of cancer, they all start because
of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells.
Normal body cells grow, divide,
and die in an orderly fashion. During the early
years of a person's life, normal cells divide more
rapidly until the person becomes an adult. After
that, cells in most parts of the body divide only
to replace worn-out or dying cells and to repair
injuries.
Because cancer cells continue to
grow and divide, they are different from normal
cells. Instead of dying, they outlive normal cells
and continue to form new abnormal cells.
Mesothelioma Cancer Treatment
Cancer cells develop because of
damage to DNA. This substance is in every cell and
directs all activities. Most of the time when DNA
becomes damaged the body is able to repair it. In
cancer cells, the damaged DNA is not repaired. People
can inherit damaged DNA, which accounts for inherited
cancers. More often, though, a person's DNA becomes
damaged by exposure to something in the environment,
like smoking.
Cancer usually forms as a tumor.
Some cancers, like leukemia, do not form tumors.
Instead, these cancer cells involve the blood and
blood-forming organs and circulate through other
tissues where they grow.
Often, cancer cells travel to other
parts of the body where they begin to grow and replace
normal tissue. This process is called metastasis.
Regardless of where a cancer may spread, however,
it is always named for the place it began. For instance,
breast cancer that spreads to the liver is still
called breast cancer, not liver cancer.
Not all tumors are cancerous. Benign
(noncancerous) tumors do not spread (metastasize)
to other parts of the body and, with very rare exceptions,
are not life threatening.
Different types of cancer can behave
very differently. For example, lung cancer and breast
cancer are very different diseases. They grow at
different rates and respond to different treatments.
That is why people with cancer need treatment that
is aimed at their particular kind of cancer.
Cancer is the second leading cause
of death in the United States. Nearly half of all
men and a little over one third of all women in
the United States will develop cancer during their
lifetimes. Today, millions of people are living
with cancer or have had cancer. The risk of developing
most types of cancer can be reduced by changes in
a person's lifestyle, for example, by quitting smoking
and eating a better diet. The sooner a cancer is
found and treatment begins, the better are the chances
for living for many years.
Mesothelioma Cancer Treatment
Mesothelioma is an uncommon form
of cancer, usually associated with previous exposure
to asbestos. In this disease, malignant (cancerous)
cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining
that covers most of the body's internal organs.
Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining
of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also
occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal
cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds
the heart).
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked
on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or
have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in
other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a
family member who worked with asbestos, or by home
renovation using asbestos cement products.
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