Asbestos Cancer

Many diseases associated with exposure to asbestos that means asbestos exposure. Although all these are not fatal, they lead in damaging health and quality of life of sufferer. These were, and are, predictable and can be prevented at the time of being asbestos exposed. Anyone usually expose to asbestos will not definitely affect and he will become ill. On the other hand, it is must to prevent all exposure if anyone want to become protected. Can you differentiate between asbestos and cancer? Do you know the asbestos diseases and asbestos exposure symptoms? Lets get more asbestos information below.

What are Asbestos symptoms?

Fibres of asbestos are harmful because they are highly sharp and small. Ordinary-sized dust  which is caught and expelled by the body's defences, can be breathed in to the lungs or swallowed into the stomach,while asbestos slips through. Hence, the lungs, chest, sometimes, stomach of its  suffer the most.

There is no known safe level of exposure to asbestos dust. John Gummer MP when Environment Minister said: "One asbestos fibre can kill." However, not everyone exposed will become ill. All we know is that the more asbestos someone is exposed to the more likely it is they will become ill and that the only safe exposure is zero exposure.

Asbestos cancers generally take from 20 to 40 years to develop (the 'latency period'), although much shorter and longer periods have been recorded. Pleural thickening can happen more quickly.

Asbestos Related Cancer or Mesothelioma

asbestos related cancer is known as Mesotheloima also known as Asbestos related lung cancer as it grows on the lining of the lung, gut (peritoneum) or very occasionally in the pericardium lining (beside the cavity of the chest). Sufferers tend to die within six to eighteen months following diagnosis.The disease is sometimes noticed first by a build up of fluid in the area being affected, known as an effusion. This condition can be caused by other diseases such as an infection. The usual asbestos treatment of mesothelioma cancer is to drain the fluid and check it for any cancer cells.

What is Cancer? and Causes of Cancer?

Cancer is a type of diseases marked by the growth of out-of-control cells. Over 100 types of cancer have been characterized, and each type is classified by the initially affected cell types. So, what do you think what is root causes for cancer?

What causes cancer?

Cancer is  a result of cells that grows without any control and do not die. Cells of the body always follow an orderly way of growth,breaking-up and death. When the process of apoptosis, a cell death programmed, breaks down, cancer starts to form. Unlike regular cells, Cancer cells, not normal cell, do not follow programmatic death and continue to grow on the other hand and then divide which leads to the mass growth of uncontrolled abnormal cells.

Symptoms of cancer

Symptoms of cancer are varied and depend on the location of cancer cells in the body where it spread and size of cells that form a tumor. Some type of cancers can be felt or seen over the skin - a lump on breast or testicle could be an indicator of cancer. Skin cancer which is call melanoma is determined by a change in the wart or the mole on the skin. Oral cancers show white spots on the tongue or white mend inside the mouth.


Other cancers symptoms are less visible from the outside. Brain tumors on the other hand shows symptoms early as affect cognitive functions of the body. Symptoms also presented by tumor grows or by pushes against organs and blood vessels. For example, colon cancers shows symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, and stool size change. Prostate cancers shows bladder function changes which results in more frequent or infrequent urination