Mesothelioma Statistics

Mesothelioma Statistics 

2,497 People

Died of Mesothelioma in 2013.

Treatment Options

Treatment for this cancer may involve surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Patients can also enroll in clinical trials to try experimental therapies.

Multimodal Therapy

Research has shown improved survival with multimodal therapy, an approach that combines two or more treatments. A 2007 study on four-modality therapy reported a median survival of 26 months.

Clinical Trials

2,000 to 3,000

New Cases of Mesothelioma

Gender

Because men are exposed to asbestos more often, they are4.6 times more likely to bediagnosed with this cancer.

Race

95 percent of all mesothelioma patients are white. Hispanics are diagnosed more frequently than blacks or Asians.

Age

For people older than 60 years of age, the risk of developing the disease is 10 times higher than that of people younger than 40.

Where It Occurs

Mesothelioma Claimed More Than

37,000

Lives in the United States From 1999 to 2013

Mesothelioma Deaths by State, 1999-2013

Statistics on the outcomes of many past patients give today’s patients a general idea of their outlook. On average, 40 percent of pleural mesothelioma patients survive at least one year after starting treatment. By year five, survival drops to 8 percent.

Gender

Research shows that womendiagnosed with pleural mesothelioma experience nearly three-fold better survival than men. One study reported that 13.4 percent of women survive for five years after treatment, compared to only 4.5 percent of men.

Age

Overall, younger patients have a significantly higher survivalrate than older patients. More than 50 percent of patients diagnosed before the age of 50 survive one year, while less than 33 percent of those 75 or older survive the same amount of time.

Race

Regardless of race, one-year survival is about the same. From three years on, survival is slightly worse for whites. National Cancer Institute data shows that five-year survival among whites is 7.6 percent, compared to 12.3 percent for blacks.

Survival by Stage

Doctors use a four-stage system to describe how far the cancer has advanced within the body. Patients diagnosed at stage I have the best outlook, while survival is worst at stage IV.

Symptom	Pleural	Peritoneal	Pericardial
Abdominal Distention
Abdominal Swelling or Tenderness
Anemia
Loss of Appetite
Bowel Obstruction
Chest Pains
Chills
Cough
Couging up Blood
Difficulty Breathing
Fatigue
Feeling of Fullness
Fever
Fluid Buildup
Lumps Under Abdominal Skin
Lumps Under Skin of the Chest
Heart Failure
Heart Palpitations
Hernias
Irregular Heartbeat
Murmurs
Night Sweats
Pain
Pressure on the Heart
Reduced Chest Expansion
Shortness of Breath
Vomiting
Weight Loss
Wheezing

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