Types of Lung Cancer Mesothelioma

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When new clients come into my office they often talk to me about their lung cancer and they

 mentioned mesothelioma but they don't really understand the difference so I want to talk to

you about that difference now hi I'm Joe Williams I'm a mesothelioma trial attorney and I

want to talk to you a little bit about the these two different diseases both of which can be

caused by asbestos first let's talk about lung cancer lung cancer is a malignancy that grows within the lung itself now here in this anatomical drawing the lungs are represented here this is

 known as the lung parenchyma it's a spongy organ that is within the bony ribcage now lung

cancer as it's known and there's many different cell types of lung cancer but lung cancer just

generally is a discrete tumor inside the parenchymal inside the tissue of the lung so you've

heard the term golf-ball-like tumor sometimes doctors refer to it as a nodule and that's the

kind of tumor that happens within the lung tissue and there again there's different cell types

but it's generally called lung cancer now mesothelioma is very different mesothelioma is a

very specific cancer and it's really only two different cell types epithelial mesothelioma or

sarcoma toit mesothelioma or it can be a combination of the two and that's called biphasic

mesothelioma but no matter which cell type it is mesothelioma is a tumor a malignant tumor

of the lining outside the lung now outside the lung you see this whitish grey substance here

that's the pleura there's a parietal pleura and a visceral pleura and these two plural surfaces

interact with the outside of the lung and the inside of the ribcage and in between the two of

them there's a little bit of liquid so as our diaphragm involuntarily contracts it pushes the

spongy lung tissue that spongy lung organ up and it allows us to take a breath but the pleural

surface allows the lung to slide along inside the bony ribcage and we don't even know it

Related: Histological Types of Lung Cancer

happened it's involuntary but when someone has malignant mesothelioma a tumor of these

plural surfaces just breathing can cause pain and also the tumor pushes in on the spongy lung

tissue contracts the lung can't get a full breath mesothelioma victims experience shortness of

breath because of that the mesothelioma tumor does not grow like a golf ball it's a diffused

tumor that grows in a diffuse pattern along the pleural surface and tends to encase the lung

area some have described it like the rind of a grapefruit it's a diffused tumor so those are some

of the differences between lung cancer and mesothelioma and I'm telling you this.

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