The cancerous disease which affects the mesothelial cells of the outer lining which protects organs such as the heart, stomach and lungs and which is called mesothelium is known as Mesothelioma.
The only cause of this disease is the unprotected and regular contact with asbestos. This disease is hard to diagnose because the symptoms only make their appearance after several years and its treatment is still being studied; so far, the currently used treatments as too poor for this type of cancer.
Those who have entered in contact with asbestos over the past 30 to 50 years are at risk; in other words, men between the ages of 60 and 70 are those who might have the disease, because they’re the ones who worked with this material, when there was no protection; that way, the workers were repeatedly endangered by the asbestos’s fibres and dust, which affected the mesothelium cells. Many of those workers discovered that they are carriers of this type of cancer at 30 to 50 years later, because of the fact that the disease needs decades to fully develop and manifest. These men are now lodging million dollar lawsuits against the companies that actually are aware of the situation.
