Let’s take the scenario of a seventy years old man, a non-smoking and otherwise fairly healthy, with the local doctor with complaints of persistent cough, chest congestion and weight loss. Other symptoms may include difficulty swallowing and loss of appetite. The doctor has several options for diagnosis, but pleural mesothelioma, a deadly cancer of the lining around the lungs, can not be considered.

Recognition of pleural mesothelioma as a separate disease started in the 1960s. Currently, only about 3000 cases per year in the United States. It is also known that the main cause of pleural mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos. The family members of asbestos in the risk of substance, he is at home on his body and clothes.

This form of cancer has a long latency period and the symptoms manifest only twenty to forty years or more after exposure to asbestos. This is also vitiates the possibility of a correct diagnosis.

Once the doctor removes the risk of other diseases and pursues the pleural mesothelioma line, the patient is exposed to a series of tests and imaging procedures, such as X-ray and CT scan. Fluid accumulation in the thoracic cavity is an indicator, but not enough. The confirmation can be used with a pleura (pleura is the membrane that the lung) biopsy with an electron microscope.

Since pleural mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer, early detection and immediate implementation of appropriate management is essential. The possibility of a physician for the diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma misdiagnoses or IT, the medical malpractice can not be completely excluded. But usually the law that applies to asbestos product liability.
It is generally accepted that pleural mesothelioma is a disease that is difficult to diagnose. To the doctor, the patient should be him right at the beginning of exposure to asbestos, if any.

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