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definition
An uncommon malignant tumour of the mesothelium, usually of the lungs after exposure to asbestos.
Examples of mesothelioma in a Sentence
Diseases that may results from breathing in these fibers include asbestosis, mesothelioma and lung cancer.
Most people who develop mesothelioma do not have asbestosis.
You do not have to get asbestosis in order to get mesothelioma.
Widow Linda Carter, who husband David died last year from mesothelioma, is trying to trace former co-workers.
Exposure to blue or brown asbestos dust can cause mesothelioma, a tumor of the pleura, which is the lining of the lung.
The effects of asbestos related illness particularly malignant mesothelioma which is a terminal illness is obviously devastating upon the individual and their family.
A few months ago he contracted mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer whose only known cause is asbestos.
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled.. .
The way in which asbestos causes mesothelioma is not known.
Virtually all cases of pleural mesothelioma are caused by exposure to asbestos fibers.
Most people with malignant mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they breathed asbestos.
Peritoneal mesothelioma causes a tumor to grow in the lining of the abdomen.
The cases Mr Barker died of asbestos-related mesothelioma in June 1996.
There is no 15 week waiting period for the prescribed disease diffuse mesothelioma.
P3D is most effective in patients with epithelial mesothelioma at an early stage.
Former Gloucester Wagon Works employe Terence Lamb, from Cheltenham, died on 19 January this year from the asbestos cancer mesothelioma.
Like many other cancers, smoking greatly increases the risk of contracting mesothelioma.
One in 40 building workers now in their 50s may die of the cancer mesothelioma.
The affected areas from mesothelioma cancer are the lining of the internal organs in the body.
Have you any information re surgical treatments and outcomes for pleural mesothelioma, especially extra pleural pneumonectomy please?
They failed, and the House of Lords restored the rights of mesothelioma victims in May 2002.
Elevated CA 125 is found both in malignant mesothelioma & serous papillary peritoneal carcinoma.