peritoneal cavity cancer

Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma Cancer

By Sean Shahin

Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma cancer is differ from pleural mesothelioma according to the place of growing tumors. In the peritoneal cancer the tumors develop on the peritoneum. The peritoneum is the outer membrane surrounds the outer wall of some internal organs in the abdominal cavity. The scientists can't know exactly how this type of cancer occur, but the closest prospect explains that the inhalation of Asbestos is the main reason for this cancer. After the inhalation of asbestos, these materials move from the chest to the abdominal cavity throughout the blood stream.

The above information will take us to the word "Asbestos", what are Asbestos? Asbestos are some types of materials that were used in the past for the construction manufacturing. Workers that were dealing with these materials are the most people who can develop mesothelioma.

The malignant peritoneal mesothelioma cancer is less common but still a very dangerous disease. The symptoms of this disease take very long time to appear "23-50 years", after this very long period the symptoms can be something like abdominal swelling, abdomen pains, general weakness and bowel obstruction "due to the growth of tumors".

The treatment options here can be surgery, chemotherapy "by using some drugs" and radiation therapy by using some kinds of radiations like x-rays and gamma rays. The early diagnosis of mesothelioma will help in the treatment process.

primary peritoneal cancer

Primary Peritoneal Cancer Prognosis - Are There Other Silent Killers?
By Faye Herl

Primary Peritoneal Cancer Prognosis is one of those things you really don't want to hear about less alone deal with. But more often than not, you know somebody or you have heard of somebody having this devastating disease. The really scary part is that you hear about it one time and the next time you know anything else is when you see an announcement in the obituary section of the newspaper.

A very aggressive disease, a primary peritoneal cancer prognosis is one of many that usually do not have favorable result. Gastro intestinal stromal tumors, or GIST for short, is one such cancer. It is usually found because a test is given for something else. More often than not, this cancer is usually found in an advanced stage. Usually stage 3 or 4 is the norm for diagnosis.

The good news is that GIST, once a highly aggressive form of cancer that did not respond all that well to surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, can now be contained with a protein inhibitor called Gleevec. This protein inhibitor acts like a door shutting telling the cancer cells to stop growing. It works for about 70 per cent of the patients that have GIST.

Before too long, a primary peritoneal cancer prognosis won't be as devastating as it is today. Advances are made all the time plus new clinical trial offer hope of a cure.

Peritoneal Cancer

Peritoneal Cancer

By George Collinsku
 

There are a variety of diseases in the world today. People are suffering from uncountable diseases and getting no cures for most of the cancer. Peritoneal cancer is one form of these cancer. It is a very rare cancer which takes place in peritoneum. This is a thin sheet which lines up the walls of the abdomen. The women who suffer from ovary cancer, and get this it diagnosed with proper medications, are the ones who are attacked by peritoneal cancer after the ovary cancer. This disease is mostly found in women.

Symptoms for this cancer are very unclear at the earlier stages of peritoneal cancer. They are very difficult to figure out the symptoms for this disease. It does not show any signs in its earlier stages and when it start to develop, and reaches it upper level, then we can figure out about this dangerous disease. This is big disadvantage, that in this modern science world, it is difficult to find the symptoms of a disease. The symptoms of this disease are very much similar to the symptoms of the disease known as ovarian cancer.

Below are some of the symptoms listed for peritoneal cancer:

1: too much blood flow from vagina
2: feeling as you are stuffed, although you had a very light meal
3: continuous vomiting
4: loss of appetite
5: nausea
6: continuous and abnormal weight gain

Peritoneal cancer can be diagnosed in multiple ways. It is firstly diagnosed through X Rays or the alternative CT scans. One more method for diagnosing this disease is peritoneoscopy. This is the analysis of peritoneum, which lets you know about the disease and that you are or not a victim of this disease.

These are the major symptoms of peritoneal cancer and they can only be seen when this disease develops at the higher stage. The treatments for peritoneal cancer are available. There are many treatments for this dangerous disease, although the success rate of these treatments are very low but still, as we say something is better than nothing.

The treatments available for this disease include chemotherapy, surgery and radiation therapy. These are the mostly used treatments for this disease and patients to get cured with these treatments but the ratio of surviving patients is low.