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Over the years, a lot of effort has gone into methods of detecting mesothelioma in patients before it reaches the critical stage where the cancer cannot be reversed. So far, what is known is that depending on the type of mesothelioma, the incubation period range from twenty to forty years. However, many of the symptoms associated with mesothelioma during its early stages are similar to regular respiratory, cardiac and abdominal diseases. This makes it difficult to be diagnosed and often leads doctors off on a wrong path to treating many of these other ailments without focusing of tackling the mesothelioma during its early state.
The prognosis in malignant Pleural Mesothelioma is tough to evaluate consistently as there is quite a bit of variation in the time before diagnosis and the rate of malignant Pleural Mesothelioma progression. A number of surgical routines may be implemented in selected patients, offering long-term survival without a cure. In most Pleural Mesothelioma patients, significant factors for prognosis are age, stage, histology and performance status.