lung cancer awareness

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Here’s why mesothelioma patients should know about it. Mesothelioma is an aggressive cancer that develops, as a result of asbestos exposure, in the mesothelium, the protective lining that covers many of the internal organs of the body. Mesothelioma can affect cells that line the heart or the abdomen. But 70% to 90% of all mesothelioma causes malignancy in the pleural lining of the lungs. So mesothelioma is for most patients a type of lung cancer. Each year there about 2,000 to 3,000 new cases of mesothelioma are diagnosed. Raising Awareness of Lung … [Read more...]