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There are almost no early symptoms of mesothelioma thus most patients with mesothelioma are diagnosed in a late stage of the cancers development. Often times it takes a period of fifteen to twenty years after exposure to asbestos (or, more rarely, radiation) for the cancer to make it's presence apparent via a set of bodily symptoms and even then these symptoms are often mistaken for less serious illnesses. If you have been exposed to asbestos for a period of time the only real way to catch mesothelioma in its early stages is to get regular chest x rays or pulmonary function tests.
Common mesothelioma symptoms include a persistent dry and/or dusty cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. These mesothelioma symptoms are generally brushed off as the effects of a less serious illness while other common symptoms such as coughing up blood, night fever, and chronic chest pain or painful breathing can shake a person up enough to warrant an immediate trip to the doctors office. However, these symptoms generally only manifest in a late stage of the cancers development.
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