SYMPTOMS OF PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA

Pleural mesothelioma is a disease whose symptoms are not easily noticeable. Although at the early stages of the disease patients do complain of recurring heart and chest pains.



Generally the symptoms are always mild at the initial stages but do get serious and complicated as soon as it reaches its matured that is when it becomes visible. Chest pain is the most common. Other symptoms include; coughs, weight loss and anorexia. Others are persistent coughing, difficulty in swallowing, facial swelling, weight loss, fever, rasping, and coughing up blood.



In some cases patients do complain of shortness of breath. This is as a result of the thickening of the pleura as the tumour begins to spread. This makes it to be filled with fluid. This fluid leads to the discomfort or pain associated with first detection of the disease.



Pleural mesothelioma patients display all three types of mesothelioma cancer cells: epithelioid mesothelioma, sarcomatoid mesothelioma and biphasic mesothelioma