About 40 percent of mesothelioma patients survive the first
year after undergoing diagnosis. Mesothelioma Survival rate is highly dependent
on many factors such as age, type of cancer, stage of cancer, gender and race.
The survivors are very grateful for their success to a specialist mesothelioma,
alternative medicine and nutrition experts.
How do I measure mesothelioma survival rate?
The researchers explained that the measure mesothelioma survival rate is done in several ways. They always calculate the survival rate in the one-year survival. Ie people who survived after one year of diagnosis. Through their study, they have also seen people who are able to last longer, including a number of people were able to survive to two years, three years, four to five years.Average mesothelioma survival rate
mesothelioma claim has reached 30 thousand Americans who
lived between 1999 and 2010. The epidemic as much as 40 percent of patients
survived for 1 year. In the second year to reach 20 percent of patients are
still able to survive. Until the third year reached 8 percent
Factors that may affect the Mesothelioma Survival Rate
Mesothelioma survival rate varies considerably influenced by
age, gender, race and various other factors. Stadium, types of cancer as well
as your current health condition is overall very influential in your prognosis.
Below are the factors that influence the survival rate of patients.
Age of Patient
Overall, older patients have a lower survival rate than
older ones. There are more than 50 percent of patients are diagnosed before the
age of 50 years are able to survive one year. But less than 33 percent of
patients aged over 75 years are able to survive in the same period.
Meanwhile younger patients have a 20 percent chance of
surviving for a decade. This difference is due to younger patients got
treatment like surgery. While older patients do not get a chance operation,
given the circumstances already weak and the risk of complications is quite
high.
In the case of older people, they often have more than
one chronic condition. Such as diabetes, heart disease and COPD. Survival
ability is generally better at a younger crowd because they are generally still
strong and does not have a serious condition. This is what makes older patients
ineligible to get some more effective treatment options.
But it is quite rare asbestor cancer patients who were under
50 years old. In general they are diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 60
years. In 1999 and 2010 almost 80 percent died of mesothelioma at the age of 65
years.
When researchers membreakdown survival rate based on age and
ability to survive more than 5 years. There are 43 percent of patients with age
less than 45 survive. Then, 14.3 percent of patients with age 45-54 years and
only 5.7 percent of patients survive 65 years of age more than 5 years.
Gender Factor
Almost all the asbestos exposure occurred at work /
occupational. Generally, in the industrial field and carried out by men. This
is what explains why as many as 80 percent of cases of mesothelioma occurred in
males
When asbestos is used massively few decades ago, some women
living close to asbestos mines and industry. They are also exposed to asbestos
as a couple, a family member who works in the industry ASBE and return home
carrying asbestos fibers in clothes and their bodies.
In general, women mesothelioma patients can survive longer
than men regardless of age, stage and treatment is obtained. Mesotheliomasurvival rate so that women are better than men. The researchers estimate that
the condition is more influenced by hormonal differences.
Race factor
There are approximately 40 percent of mesothelioma patients
survive for 1 year. While 20 percent of patients survived for 2 years. Until
the second year there has been no sign of the race became an influential
factor. Then when entering its third year, the survival rate of patients with
white skin a little bit worse than other ethnic groups.
Survive as long as five years only 7.6 per cent occur in
white patients and 12.3 percent in black patients. Only 4.2 percent of white
patients can survive up to 10 years. Where as black patients reached 9.5
percent.
Experts explain, this factor is due to different treatment
adopted by the patient blacks and whites. In a report in 2010 that studied the
mesothelioma survival rate, average cases of mesothelioma from 1990 to 2004
showed that black and Hispanic patients less surgery compared with white
patients. White patients as much as 25 percent and as much as 14 percent of
other patients.
Stage of Cancer
The stage of cancer at diagnosis can be the most powerful
reference. Mesothelioma survival rate when patients are diagnosed at an early
stage is better than advanced stage cancer when the cancer spreads more severe.
In the early stages, patients receiving
multiple treatments have improved survival because mostly they perform surgery
and other treatments that can provide better results
Mostly, people with mesothelioma do not make diagnosis until
the cancer has reached stage III and IV, when the tumor has been enlarged and the
cancer has spread to several parts of the body. Advanced stage in patients with
mesothelioma is very difficult to get effective treatment so that they are
worse survival rate.
For peritoneal mesothelioma staging system khusus.Beberapa
do not have their own investigators menggunakansistem by the TNM system which
uses tumor size, lymph nodes and spread of cancer.
Here is the calculation of mesothelioma survival rate by
stage
Surviving the first year:
stage 1: 94 percent survival rate
stage 2: 87 percent survival rate
stage 3: 66 percent
Survival rate for 5 years
stage 1: 87 percent
stage 2: 53 percent
stage 3: 29 percent
Tumor Histology
There are three types of mesothelioma cancer base on cell type. There are epithelial tumor
cells, biphasic or sarcomatoid. They have differences in behavior and
appearance.
The average survival of 12-24 months, epithelial cancer cell
types have the best prognosis. While in sarcomatoid types of cancer cells have
a more aggressive behavior. Biphasic cancer cells had a median survival of
about 12 months.
A study of mesothelioma survival rate in patients with
pleural mesothelioma 3000. Those who have a type of epithelial cancer cells had
the best survival rate and the median survival to 19 months. Median survival
for cancer patients with biphasic cell type reached 13 months. While the median
survival for cancer patients with sarcomatoid cell type reached only 8 months.