| Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma is a lethal cancer that | | | | disadvantage. Symptoms take anywhere between 20 |
| starts in the lining of the lungs. The main cause is | | | | to 50 years to manifest. Because of this, the patients |
| believed to be unprotected contact with asbestos. | | | | are generally in the fifty plus age group. And the |
| Every year about 3000 new cases of this disease | | | | outwardly noticed indications of the sickness are |
| are reported in the United States. It is estimated that | | | | similar to that of several lesser ailments. This makes |
| over the past fifty years nearly eight million people | | | | the diagnosis difficult. Because of all these, by the |
| have been exposed to asbestos and that 300,000 | | | | time the problem is detected, the cancer is likely to |
| new cases would be reported by the year 2030. The | | | | have spread. As yet there is no fully effective line of |
| peak may be around 2020 and thereafter the | | | | treatment. It is generally accepted that a combination |
| incidence is likely to taper down because of the | | | | therapy is better than monotherapy. A great deal of |
| preventive measures that are being taken.Like in all | | | | research is being done in this area.A number of |
| cases of cancer, early detection and appropriate | | | | studies have been made about the survival rate |
| treatment improve the survival rate. On both counts | | | | among pleural mesothelioma patients. |
| the pleural mesothelioma patients are at a | | | | |