Hello. I have been exposed to asbestos, silica and hydrofluoric acid fumes on the job market for 10 years) (20. At 05 I went into respiratory arrest. An open lung biopsy seemed hyperplasia pleural mesothelial atypical. Pulmonologists say it is asbestos, but it will not go further. The good people who say to me, “dealing with mesothelioma, they have white on einmal.Jeder atypical mesothelial hyperplasia, stages of mesothelioma? Thanks
Trouble breathing.
Pain under the rib cage.
Pain or swelling in the abdomen.
Lumps in the abdomen.
Weight loss for no known reason.
for more details and to find out how to be tested-treated- or diagnosed go to this : http://www.webmd.com/cancer/tc/Mesothelioma-Treatment-Patient-Information-NCI-PDQ-General-Information-About-Malignant
best wishes.
You do not have mesothelioma. However it looks like atypical mesothelial hyperplasia has the potential to develop into mesothelioma as time goes by. It also appears that it is often very difficult for pathologists to establish a clear difference between mesothelial hyperplasia and early mesothelioma. Scary I know. I have significant asbestos exposure myself.
Here is an interesting full text article on the subject. Click on the numbers to read full pages of the text.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=501499&pageindex=1#page
Here are some good articles on mesothelioma.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1457.htm
This article has an excellent description of mesothelioma staging.
http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic449.htm
I’d get yearly check ups from a pulmonologist. good luck
* Stage 1a mesothelioma affects the outer layer of the pleura around the chest wall, on one side of the chest only. It may have grown in the pleural tissue covering the diaphragm
* Stage 1b mesothelioma has started to spread to the inner pleural layer (closest to the lungs), but remains on one side of the chest.
* Stage 2 mesothelioma has spread to both layers of the pleura on one side of the body, and has enlarged to form a tumour mass on the pleural tissue around the lungs, or has started to spread into the diaphragm muscle or the lung tissue
* Stage 3 mesothelioma has spread to the chest wall or the covering of the heart (pericardium), but is still potentially removable by surgery. Or it has spread to the lymph nodes on the same side of the chest
* Stage 4 mesothelioma cannot be removed by surgery because it has spread to different parts of the chest wall, or grown through the diaphragm into the peritoneum, or to the pleura on the other side of the body, or to the chest organs, or through to the inner layer of the pericardium. Or it has spread to the lymph nodes on the other side of the chest, or above the collarbone. Or has spread to other parts of the body.