Early diagnosis of the fatal and incurable mesothelioma, and the subsequent delivery of radiotherapy, surgery and palliative care of asbestosis is known that a patient who has the best chance to expand and improve the quality of life to help.
Fundamental for the process is the use of the body of the scanning technologies, ranging from X-rays, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), CT (computed tomography) or CAT, and Advanced PET / CT (positron emission tomography and computer tomography).
The long gestation period of 50 years and the first inhalation of asbestos dust into the fiber at the onset of asbestosis can often mean diffuse malignant mesothelioma is advanced. For other body tissue
While X-rays of the chest or abdomen of a fluid collection, mass, or signs of disease, benign pleural proof of a cancer that can detect diffuse X-ray, the shadow of a tumor and peritoneal mesothelioma sample formed. Similarly, although MRI is a very detailed within the body and in order to determine the severity of a tumor, even this type of sampling capable of removing a tumor.
Produce CT images, which is a cross-sectional view of the analysis of the layers of the body to reveal anomalies easier for a certain depth in the body and can also be set up before lung X-rays of the breast that. An increase in the survival of up to 20 percent But while CT is able to pleural effusion, pleural thickening, pleural calcification, or the invasion of the chest wall to define, can not distinguish between malignant mesothelioma and Benin.
Mesothelioma patients suffering from pain when breathing by pleural effusion - fluid in the lining of the lungs in response to the growth of tumors, mesothelioma - a procedure carried out on the liquid outlet, and the space is replaced with medical talk.
New medical research has shown that. Effluent monitoring of PET / CT, also interfere with the injection of the patient with a radioactive tracer, and the level of uptake by tumor cells followed by analysis determined after one and after 14 days 125 days
It was discovered that increasing the amount of the tracer is absorbed by the tumor cells, the treatment of talc show that the disease is faster than real progress.
