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JUNE
2003
BREAKING NEWS!!
Senate Agreeing to Asbestos
Trust Increase
The Senate panel has agreed to increase the size of
the asbestos trust to an amount as high as $153 billion
to end all asbestos lawsuits. The main disagreement
regarding the asbestos fund would be what types of payments
will be made to asbestos exposed people that are now
suffering deadly diseases as a result. If the trust
passes, the asbestos settlement will be the second largest
of all time following the tobacco settlement in 1998.
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shortness of breath
- coughing
- weight loss
- sexual dysfunction
- chest pain
- abdomen pain
- swelling of the abdomen |
If
you, or someone you know, has mesothelioma and would like
more information on mesothelioma treatment and learn your
legal rights, please feel free to contact
a Mesothelioma Lawyer.
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Mesothelioma
Treatment
There
is no standard mesothelioma treatment
regimen. The FDA has not articulated a treatment regimen for
the disease. How and why mesothelioma develops is not known.
The American Cancer Society has created a list suggested for
those with mesothelioma to ask their doctor. The questions
include:
- What
type of mesothelioma do I have?
- What
is the stage of my mesothelioma (i.e. how advanced is it)?
- Has
the mesothelioma spread beyond its original site?
- What
mesothelioma treatment options do I have? Which of these
mesothelioma treatments do you recommend, and why?
- What
is my prognosis?
- What
risks or side effects are there to the mesothelioma treatments
you suggest?
- What
are the chances that my cancer will recur with these mesothelioma
treatment plans?
- What
should I do to be ready for mesothelioma treatment?
Early
diagnosis allows a greater number of mesothelioma treatment
options including chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, experimental
therapies and drugs, complementary medicine and therapies, and
lifestyle modifications.
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The
cause of death is typically from an extension of the
tumor into surrounding organs, creating bowel obstruction,
irregular heartbeat or heart failure, or respiratory
failure.
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Chemotherapy Treatment is often offered as a mesothelioma
treatment, but most patients who receive this type of treatment
do not respond favorably to it. Chemotherapy is also used when
the disease has spread and no other mesothelioma treatment is
an option.
Radiation is a mesothelioma treatment offered but is
seen as ineffective at increasing survival but mildly helpful
in managing pain and other disease effects.
Surgery is a mesothelioma treatment used for exploratory
measures, relief, and tumor removal. Exploratory surgery of
the chest can be used as a tool in early diagnosis of mesothelioma.
Palliative surgery is used for relief, not as a cure. Usually
this type of surgery is performed when the tumor has spread
beyond the mesothelium and is hard to completely remove.
A pleurectomy is to remove the tumor from the surface
of the lung by opening up the chest. The pleura is removed,
also, which is where  the
majority of the tumor exists. Extrapleural pneumonectomy is
the operation that has the best record for removing the maximum
number of tumor cells. It involves removal of a portion of the
lung called the parietal pleura, which lines the lung, the pericardium,
the heart lining, and the diaphragm. Survival rate for this
type of surgery is 41 months because of the intensity of this
procedure.
Complementary methods like sticking to a vegetarian diet,
exercise, vitamins, herbal remedies, or stress management can
sometimes help a patient with mesothelioma better deal with
their condition or to enhance their quality of life.
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The
number of mesothelioma cases diagnosed each year is
expected to peak between the years 2000 and 2020 because
of the 20-40 year latency period in asbestos exposure
and onset of meothelioma.
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Mesothelioma can reoccur despite having mesothelioma treatment.
Recurrent malignant mesothelioma can come back in the same area
it was previously in or in a once unaffected area.
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