Signs and symptoms (mesothelioma)

Symptoms of mesothelioma may not arise until 20 to 50 years afterwards acknowledgment to asbestos. Shortness of breath, cough, and affliction in the chest due to an accession of aqueous in the pleural amplitude are generally affection of pleural mesothelioma.

Symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma accommodate weight accident and cachexia, belly abscess and affliction due to ascites (a accretion of aqueous in the belly cavity). Added affection of peritoneal mesothelioma may accommodate bowel obstruction, claret array abnormalities, anemia, and fever. If the blight has advance above the mesothelium to added genitalia of the body, affection may accommodate pain, agitation swallowing, or abscess of the close or face.

This affection may be acquired by mesothelioma or by other, beneath austere conditions.

Mesothelioma that affects the pleura can account these signs and symptoms:

Chest bank pain

Pleural effusion or aqueous surrounding the lung

Shortness of breath

Fatigue or anemia

Wheezing, hoarseness, or cough

Blood in the sputum (fluid) coughed up (hemoptysis)

In astringent cases, the being may accept abounding bump masses. The alone may advance a pneumothorax, or collapse of the lung. The ache may metastasize, or spread, to added genitalia of the body.

Tumors that affect the belly atrium generally do not account affection until they are at a backward stage. Affection include:

Abdominal pain

Ascites, or an aberrant accretion of aqueous in the abdomen

An accumulation in the abdomen

Problems with bowel function

Weight loss

In astringent cases of the disease, the afterward signs and affection may be present:

Blood clots in the veins, which may account thrombophlebitis

Disseminated intravascular coagulation, a ataxia causing astringent bleeding in abounding anatomy organs

Jaundice, or yellowing of the eyes and skin

Low claret amoroso level

Pleural effusion

Pulmonary emboli, or claret clots in the arteries of the lungs

Severe ascites

A mesothelioma does not usually advance to the bone, brain, or adrenal glands. Pleural tumors are usually begun alone on one ancillary of the lungs.