Mesothelioma:
Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects cells of the mesothelial lining in the chest and abdomen. Mesothelioma cancer can develop in the lining of the lungs or stomach. Mesothelioma has also been found in the stomach and abdominal organs other but much less frequently in those areas than both pleural mesothelioma and peritoneal mesothelioma. Mesothelioma can also occur in the ovaries and the scrotum. Mesothelioma attacks the chest wall or esophagus during the second stage.Mesothelioma also takes a long time to develop (usually 15-40 years), so that patients today may have been exposed to before 1980 when asbestos was not strictly regulated. Mesothelioma is not caused by smoking, such as lung cancer, so often the case.

Symptoms
Symptoms One of the most common symptoms of mesothelioma is the accumulation of fluid between the lung lining and chest cavity. Symptoms include: abdominal painascites, or the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the abdominal mass in the stomach problems with bowel function weight loss. Symptoms such as difficulty swallowing, pain, or swelling of the neck and face can be an indication that the cancer has spread beyond mesotheliom to other parts of the body. Pleural mesothelioma symptoms include chest pain and stayed in a severe shortness of breath caused by pleural effusion, or fluid accumulation in the pleural lining cough, weight loss, and fever, are also common symptoms. Symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma include weight loss and abdominal pain and swelling due to fluid accumulation in the stomach. Symptoms of mesothelioma may not appear until 20 to 50 years after exposure to asbestos.

Diagnosis:
The key to long-term survival of mesothelioma treatment is early diagnosis, which allows the greatest potential for success of standard therapy. Diagnosis begins with a review of the patient’s medical history, including history of asbestos exposure. Mesothelioma diagnosis is based on a pathological exam, more commonly referred to as biopsy.Since this disease can be difficult to diagnose and expensive to treat, it may require consultation from an experienced lawyer. While not conclusive diagnosis can be made from a liquid sample, the diagnosis is often made through a surgical procedure called an average age of diagnosis of mesothelioma is throrascopy.The between 50 and 70 years, with males being affected three to five times more often than women. Diagnosis can be suspected with chest X-ray and CT scan, and confirmed with a biopsy (tissue sample) and microscopic examination. The median survival time was 17 months, with ten percent of patients live for three years after diagnosis.

Conclusion:
Mesothelioma is a deadly cancer that is rare even in the last few decades the number of people who have died from it has increased dramatically. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer, but the deadly one of all. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer, and only affects between 2,000 and 3,000 people in the United States per year. Mesothelioma is less common in African Americans than in white Americans. Mesothelioma is rare in people under the age of 55. National Cancer Institute statistics show that 3000 new diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma are reported each year. Mesothelioma is not always fatal and it is the hope to maintain.

Asthma therapy by intelligently controlling an attempt to reduce mortality in people with asthma. It conveyed Prof. Dr. Yusuf Faisal, Chairman of the Pulmonary Doctors Association meeting journalists in Indonesia, Thursday (4 / 6) in Jakarta.

“When asthma is not controlled, the disease can limit the activities sufferers, even severe,” said Faisal.

Faisal said, in Jakarta for more than 90 percent of asthma cases in Indonesia is not controlled at this time. Treatment for asthma patients should not only address the symptoms but also asthma control with regular exercise.

Unfortunately, public understanding of the importance of controlling for asthma still less. In addition, dependence on drugs causes respiratory salve asthma lazy to do maintenance therapy to prevent exacerbations attack could be severe.

Faisal explained, asthma can be categorized into three namely uncontrolled asthma, asthma control and asthma is partly controlled. Uncontrolled asthma attacks marked the emergence of three times or more. Patients with asthma experience symptoms in the morning and afternoon more than two times a week such as shortness of breath, chest feels heavy and coughing. The patient woke up because of asthma, restricted activity, lung function below normal, necessary salve respiratory medicine more than two times a week.

While some controlled asthma picture, very few patients experienced an asthma attack in a week. Then in asthma well controlled with almost no attacks occurred during the day. Patients can also do an event without barriers, and there are no symptoms that occur at night. With pulmonary organs functioning normally then the patient does not require a salve therapy.

Medical

Then how to treat asthma? Basically an effective asthma treatment is to avoid trigger asthma and using asthma medications to reduce airway inflammation. To find trigger, the patient should consult a doctor.

Because asthma is a chronic condition, sufferers require long-term treatment and medication therapy. Thus, asthma patients need medication to cope with an attack or as a salve that can be used everyday and treatment to control inflammation and respiratory symptoms and prevent asthma attacks since the beginning.

“However, this time more public attention directed to how to deal with the attack, although drug treatment only salve for a moment the attack. In fact, inflammation of the bronchi can trigger re-occurrence of attacks that cause asthma attacks can occur repeatedly. This could lower the quality of life of patients , “he said.

On that basis, the Global Initiative for Asthma (Global Initiative for Asthma / GINA) issued guidelines in 2008 regarding the management of asthma in total through a combination of maintenance therapy and salve in a tube of inhalers to relieve respiratory inflammation as well as overcome.

“Inhalation therapy is relatively no side effects. This is different from oral medications that have many side effects,” said Faisal. However, the combination drug price maintenance and salve in one package is still relatively expensive.

Responding to the many problems faced by people with asthma, Asthma Foundation gives Indonesia access to the patient. Retno Ramansaman, Chairman YAI said that his party has set up a pharmacy asthma. Thus, people with asthma can buy asthma medications are cheaper than those sold in the market.

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