Thursday, April 1, 2010

Peritoneal mesothelioma

Peritoneal mesothelioma is a cancer that the thin membrane called the peritoneum affected. This set of cells around the intestines and lubricates the stomach and intestines to change in order to function properly. These organizations have the ability, the digestion and absorption of food, or rather can move the absence of the peritoneum cause serious and debilitating. Unfortunately, the symptoms of peritonitis can be so subtle as to be confused with other diseases, safer, and that influence this aspect of the disease mortality impressive.
The most common symptoms of peritonitis:

* Abdominal pain
* Abdominal pain
* Difficulties in the intestine
Weight loss
* Nausea
* Anorexia
* Weakness
* Flatulence

If the asbestos consumption of minutes to get into the stomach and the stomach wall. Fibers penetrate the soft body to cancer cells mutate and begin synovial disease. These cells accumulate in the tumor, and eventually drown the peritoneum, the killing of healthy cells in the stomach in the process. In addition, to prevent peritoneal a protective layer that helps the stomach movement. Less drastic to develop stomach cancer and increasing pressure on adjacent organs, which appalling.

There is no cure for the disease, but under certain circumstances can help to treat. to age, cell type, the size and stage of cancer are involved and if the tumor responded to treatment contributes significantly to medical measures are taken.
common methods of peritoneal disease:

* Chemotherapy: hard drug use for the reduction and elimination of the tumor, but these drugs are very powerful and often cause serious damage to other healthy blood cells. These drugs can be used orally, or in some cases, medication directly from tumors that are resistant to other treatments imported
* Radiation therapy: Radiation therapy is peritoneal disease. Strong X-rays can destroy the diseased cells, but can also kill healthy cells, and many people have received radiation therapy and intraperitoneal disease often suffer from hair loss and other side effects.

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