Pleural Effusions

Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a neoplasm arising from the serosal lining of the peritoneal and pericardial cavities. Primary tumors arising from peritoneal mesothelioma are extremely rijetke.Točne diagnosis of diffuse peritoneal mesothelioma is important, because it almost always has a fatal outcome. In many cases, malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is not diagnosed until after surgery or obdukciju.Razlikovanje malignant peritoneal mesothelioma from tumors metastatic to the serosal membranes can often be based on the results of histochemical studies.

The most common symptoms of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma are difficulty in breathing, chest pain, or both. Other symptoms include weight loss, fever, night sweats, cough, and a general feeling of not being well, although these symptoms are not as common.

The standard treatment for malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is not curative. Aggressive treatment will enable some patients to experience long-term survival, but it is still unclear whether the survival rate would be changed considerably different treatments or combinations of treatments. There are various treatments available for malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, depending on the state of his diagnosis. For stage one, that is localized malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, standard treatments are malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, intracavitary, intracavitary chemotherapy after resection.

stages 2-4, it is an advanced malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, treatments are available symptomatic treatment to include drainage of effusions, chest tube pleurodesis, or thoracoscopic pleurodesis, palliative surgical resection in selected patients, palliative radiotherapy, single-agent chemotherapy, a multimodality clinical trials.

To date, no treatment approaches that have been shown to improve survival and symptom control for longer periods of time. However, with advances in technology and medicine, there is hope that one day doctors will be able to beat cancer and go out with some life-saving treatment against this horrible cancer.