Mesothelioma is a deadly and frightening cancer that affects the lives of more than 2,000 new people in the US alone. The survival rate of people with another form of mesothelioma cancer as a localized form at the beginning remains poor.
There are a number of factors involved in determining the life expectancy of mesothelioma cancer patients, and each patient has a unique case. As physicians are constantly looking for advances in treatment options and opportunities to increase the life expectancy of mesothelioma patients, the life expectancy of a mesothelioma patient is probably better today than it was five years ago.
For mesothelioma cancer patients, the median life expectancy - that is, the peak of a bell curve - is 4 to 18 months. However, the case of a single patient needs to take much more into account. Some patients can survive mesothelioma for a longer period while others have a shorter life after diagnosis.
Many cases of mesothelioma have been missed
In the US, the survival rate for mesothelioma patients has been studied only in the last 20 years, although people suffering from mesothelioma since the beginning of the century. A fundamental problem in estimating the survival probability of mesothelioma is that mesothelioma was most commonly missed as a cause of death in the 20th century.
Another problem that prevented the collection of data that could be used to more accurately determine the survival probabilities of mesothelioma is the number of cases that have previously been misdiagnosed as another type of cancer. [*]
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