The using of asbestos was started a long time ago, but it becomes really popular in the early of 19th century. Asbestos is a mineral which usually formed into fibers and commonly used as a material to produce several properties such as drywall, plaster, roof, ceilings, and many more. The basic character of asbestos is resistant towards damages that caused by fire or heat, chemical damage, and electricity. Those are the reasons that make asbestos to be a great material for making great products which have many advantages.
But lately people found that the using asbestos costs you more than the money. The using of asbestos is considered causing mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer that built up from the tissue that protect most of your internal organs such us lungs, heart, and stomach. This is a serious type of cancer that develops very long time, 30-50 years. The asbestos particle is clinically proven to be the cause of mesothelioma. The indication is the person who suffers mesothelioma is living with asbestos around. The exposure to asbestos leads the person inhale asbestos particles or other possible contact with asbestos dust and fibers. Basically there is no relation between mesothelioma with smoking, but smoking will increase the risk of cancers that caused by asbestos exposure. The symptoms can be seen from short breath and bad cough of the patient caused by the existence of fluid between lung and chest wall. The other symptom is the person who suffers mesothelioma will losing the weight. You can detect mesothelioma by X-ray or CT scan. Those results from X-ray and CT scan can be supported by the tissue sample that is taken by biopsy test. The biopsy test is conducted by inserting a tube that has been attached with camera into the chest. Radiation, chemotherapy, or surgery is considered not solving the whole problem of mesothelioma. The research and clincal test about mesothelioma is still ongoing to find the most appropriate treatment.
In several countries, those cases lead to the regulations that ban the using asbestos as materials the products mentioned above. The people who live around the mine or factory which involves asbestos is infected mesothelioma. Much more knowledge that you can find about mesothelioma hopefully increasing the awareness of its hazard and prevent by eliminates the factors that causing the disease. Thus there will be more people that safe from mesothelioma including your family.
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