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Focus on pleural cancer or malignant pleural mesothelioma

Cancer of the pleura, or malignant pleural mesothelioma, a cancer is rare and very aggressive. Difficult to diagnose, it is often confused with lung cancer. It is bound in the great majority of cases with exposure to asbestos.
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This cancer affects the pleura, the membrane surrounding the lungs and lines the chest cavity. In 75 to 80% of cases, cancer of the pleura is associated with exposure to asbestos.

Asbestos fibers migrate into the pleura, where they trigger an inflammatory reaction. Eventually, 20 to 50 years, the attack eventually stimulate the proliferation of malignant cells.

The business sectors most at risk of exposure to asbestos and therefore at risk of cancer of the pleura are plumbers pipefitters, boilermakers Taulier, areas of shipbuilding and processing of asbestos.

Overall, the incidence of mesothelioma increases with age. They are usually individuals over sixty who have been detected this type of cancer.

Moreover, the diagnosis is not easy and cancer of the pleura is often confused with lung cancer. As for the prognosis of this rare cancer (1,000 cases per year) but aggressive, it is rather dark, but everything depends on the stage at diagnosis.