Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer effecting the membrane lining the lungs and stomach, malignant mesothelioma or malignant mesothelioma is the most serious of all asbestos-related diseases. Although uncommon, mesothelioma cancer is no longer considered rare. The main causes and risk factors for mesothelioma is exposure to asbestos.
mesothelioma has several types and can attack several parts of the body, between other things:
1 pleural mesothelioma (pleura)
This type is the most common of all mesothelioma. Usually caused by frequent inhalation of asbestos fiber dust, which is then trapped in the pleura and cause scarring and inflammation.
2 peritoneal mesothelioma (lining of the abdominal cavity)
The second most common type grew in the peritoneum, the tissue that lines the stomach. As with pleural mesothelioma, the cause is dust and asbestos fibers are ingested or somehow find its way into the digestive tract so that settles and develops in the lining of the abdominal cavity.
3. Pericardial Mesothelioma (sac that surrounds the heart)
Mesothelioma is ranked the third most frequently attacks the tissue that lines the heart. The cause is asbestos too, and this cancer develops from abnormal cells that had developed in the pleura. Somehow the process, but this asbestos dust can penetrates into the pericardium and develop in the lining of the heart.
4. mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis (the internal layer of the male sex organs) and mesothelioma of the tunica serosa uteri (lining of the internal female sex organs)
Both types of mesothelioma is the most rare. Although uncertain how exactly to asbestos dust can settle, and attacking the male dna female sex organs, but some cases do show that asbestos dust is the main cause.
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