Smoking and Mesothelioma
What are the Effects of Smoking on Mesothelioma Sufferers?
It is important to comprehend that smoking cigarettes does not cause mesothelioma cancer. That being said, smoking complicates an individual’s chances of contracting the cancer. Mesothelioma cancer is a serious and rare medical condition that is mostly found in individuals who have had previous experience handling or working with asbestos-containing materials.
Mesothelioma cancer is extraordinarily deadly—after securing a formal diagnosis, the average mesothelioma patient will only live 1-2 years. The bleak prognosis is widely due to the disease’s inconspicuousness. Mesothelioma symptoms lie dormant for much of the disease’s early life; mesothelioma cancer does not become noticeable until the cancer has proliferated to other vital organs in the body. It is widely thought that mesothelioma cancer’s extraordinary death rates derive from the patient’s inability to detect symptoms. This characteristic coupled with the disease’s obfuscated cellular structure renders detection nearly impossible.
Smoking and asbestos exposure is a deadly combination. The repercussions include the overall destruction of the lungs; this combination will greatly increase your chances of developing lung cancer or a lung related disease, such as mesothelioma.
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