Sarcomatoid mesothelioma happens to be one of the dreaded forms of mesothelioma. The point to be noted here is that it is caused due to the asbestos exposure. Since asbestos exposure in the long run causes many serious complication, Sarcomatoid mesothelioma is one of them.
Most types of mesothelioma conditions are caused due to long term exposure. It's mainly caused because of the long term asbestos exposure. People should first know about the reasons why they get exposed to asbestos and its products.
Please note that asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral found on the earth. The bad thing about asbestos is that it is hazardous mineral having a capacity to release its fibers slowly into the environment.
Once asbestos fibers are released slowly in the environment, they start accumulating in the linings of the lungs of those who inhale them. In most cases, asbestos exposure takes years to show effect. In other words, asbestos exposure takes long to show symptoms to a person affected by them.
This is the reason why you always see people getting affected with asbestos exposure have to take care a lot. But this could not happen in earlier times when most companies were serious in making asbestos related products like fire extinguishers.
Since companies continued to indulge in making asbestos related products, it continued to make people or workers exposed while working. Over the time, the result comes in front of them in the form of several dreaded disorders like mesothelioma, lung cancer and others.
Out of the several forms of mesothelioma, there is another type of mesothelioma called sarcomatoid mesothelioma which is another form of mesothelioma.
Sarcomatoid mesothelioma is a lesser known mesothelioma as it has the least known cell structure. Not only that, most patients have poor prognosis just because of the fact that this type of mesothelioma cancer progresses very fast and therefore becomes quite difficult to treat.
When we discuss about sarcomatoid mesothelioma, it generally comprises up to 20% of cases as compared to the entire mesothelioma cases. Please note that Sarcomatoid mesothelioma is detected as per the cell type. Just like biphasic mesothelioma, Sarcomatoid mesothelioma is another type having different cell types.
Most of the times, doctors face problems to treat Sarcomatoid mesothelioma cases because cell types behave normal cells. And due to that takes time for doctors to actually see and check how it differs from the normal cell type.
While treating different mesothelioma cases, it all depends on the line of treatment depending on the cell type. Most of the times, Sarcomatoid mesothelioma cell types are spindle shaped having a tendency to metastasize.
When there is a minor difference in detecting such type of cells, it becomes hard for doctors to diagnose and treat such cases. Take a look at different sarcomatoid cell types:
· Spindle shape cells
· Large and elongated nucleus
· Occasionally have multiple nuclei
· Tendency to metastasize
As you can see above, most of the times, sarcomatoid mesothelioma cells not only look but also behave quite differently as compared to the normal cells.
As we have updated you above, most of the time, you can see Sarcomatoid mesothelioma cells are mostly found to be separated from one another and behave just like spindle. That's the reason they can spread quickly across a number of distant locations in the body that is also termed as distant metastasis.
After a detailed examination of sarcomatoid cell types, it has been analyzed that they are categorized into its sub-types that includes transitional, lymphohistiocytoid and desmoplastic.
Well, as the name suggests, all these sarcomatoid mesothelioma resides at different locations. And that is why they are called by these different names. Please take a look at each of the sarcomatoid mesothelioma cell type as per their names:
Also Read: Biphasic Mesothelioma Diagnosis, Cell Types, Treatment & Prognosis
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