What are the symptoms
Between exposure to asbestos and the onset of mesothelioma is usually a period of about 20 years but can be over 40 years of sitting.
This means that people with mesothelioma usually over 50 years. The first symptoms include chest pain or discomfort in the chest, shortness of breath and coughing. The shortness of breath is caused by the accumulation of fluid between the lung membranes.
Pain is mostly in the foreground as the tumor invade the chest wall and the nerves that run it are affected. Due to this ingrowth creates as it were an armor around the lung, which is therefore not able to function properly. This creates more breathlessness. This also leads to deformity of the chest.
There has been a proliferation in 40% place to the local lymph nodes. Metastasis to other organs through the bloodstream usually plays no significant role. In a later phase occurs at slimming.
