What is Mesothelioma?
For a nursing researcher like me, the topic of cancer is always an interesting one. Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that is less popular than other cancer types and has stirred debates among health practitioners because the disease will only appear after 20-50 years of exposure to asbestos.
According to wikipedia.org,
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos. In this disease, malignant cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body’s internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart).
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products. Unlike lung cancer, there is no association between mesothelioma and smoking.
Treatment of mesothelioma could be difficult, time-consuming and frustrating to patients and family members. Treatments include: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and Heated Intraoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy. These mesothelioma treatment options are very expensive (needless to say).
However, to defray expenses on treatments, mesothelioma patients hire mesothelioma lawyers to claim money from the companies they work (or used to worked) for. Expenses are high and companies subjecting their employees to asbestos are obligated to pay for the bills of their employees as part of their hazard pay even if they are no longer connected with them. The legal suit can be very lengthy and without a good lawyer, mesothelioma cases may not prosper.
So if you know someone with this type of disease, you should consult the services of a good mesothelioma lawyer as soon as possible because pursuing the case and convincing a jury that doing a particular job for a particular company is not an easy task.
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Tags: cancer, health, Nursing
Nice find. The first time i heard about this, sa google adwords haha. I don’t have any idea na cancer pala sia. Yan napapala ng di nagbabasa puro lang optimization lols.
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Ambo,
Matagal ko nang alam tong mesothelioma but I never had the time to write it. I didn’t find it in adwords at first, it was in my nursing research archives but I never had the chance to finish the research in 2004 due to lack of funding.
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Kakatakot naman sakit nayan pala. Nabasa kona rin yan eh kasi diko nabigyan masyado focus.
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jessie reply on April 8, 2008:
jOY,
Oo, asbestos ang source nyan eh kaya pinagbawal na ang paggamit ng asbestos sa maraming firms at industries.
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Jess bakit yung ibang site ko nag aapear ang last ko here sa comment then my joydob.com di naman? Curios lang kasi dummy eh?
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jessie reply on April 8, 2008:
Joy,
I’m not sure. Check mo nga yung URL ng site mo. Kasi yung ibang sites mo ok naman.
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patawa naman to Mesothelioma may assignment ba naman sa payu2blog about it hehe.
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jessie reply on April 12, 2008:
Joy,
I don’t do posts at payu2b. Nursing research ko na dati to. Tingnan mo yung link eh wikipedia, not any company. Wish ko nga paid ako dito eh. Hahaha!
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Mesothelioma sufferers need to do their best to find a qualified attorney. You don’t want to fool around this type of thing, you family’s welfare could be at stake after your passing.
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