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.