There’s this one famous soap from the local TV that’s been going on for months that I never watch. That soap has generated high TV ratings for the network and I got interested.  I’ve watched one episode and there was this scene that an Uncle is talking to her niece that was in the hospital dying of mesothellioma cancer. Other scenarios were taken in a courtroom where they’re fighting for the closing down of a very large mining company as accused of dumping asbestos waste to the nearby village causing people to get sick with mesothelioma cancer.  I remembered my best friend’s dad used to do mining before and I searched in the internet about mesothelioma asbestos. And that once exposed, it will stay in the body and does not show any symptoms and some could take from 10 – 40 years to show the condition.

This is a very rare form of cancer that is related with asbestos exposure. The malignant cells develop in the mesothelium, in this disease. Mesothelioma prognosis still remains complex.  Chemo and surgeries does not guarantee cure of the disease but there have been alternate treatment that had worked and extended the life of the patient more that surgeries were able to do so.