One of the most common symptoms known for pleural mesothelioma patients is chronic chest pain but the chest pain is often not associated directly with the lung pleura. It often appears in the shoulder or the upper abdomen area. Other known symptoms are shortness of breath which is called dyspnea and is also a symptom of mesothelioma disease.
Chronic coughing, rapid weight loss and anorexia are present in some mesothelioma disease patients but are less common. The rapid growth of the pleural mesothelioma cancer tumors tend to enlarge the pleural space which causes it to be filled with fluid which leads to painful discomfort or pain associated with first detection of the mesothelioma disease.
There was a study involving over 167 patients with proven pleural mesothelioma disease and they found that the median survival rate of mesothelioma disease patients following diagnosis was numbered at 242 days. The survival rate for mesothelioma disease patients was also affected by the type of mesothelioma disease cancer cells and patients with biphasic cell types tend to have the shortest life expectancy known.
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