Mesothelioma Case Study
What to add and remove from the lifestyle of a Mesothelioma patient
Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer that develops primarily from direct or indirect exposure to asbestos. When people are diagnosed with this disease (as with any type of cancer) most of the time is at a high age and there are many things that they must change in their style and rhythm of life. Here there will be exhibited in detail the things that should add to their lives people under these conditions and the things that they should stop doing in order to extend their life expectancy.
Add to lifestyle:
• Receiving care from their relatives: it is very common that the person affected by Mesothelioma is the head of the family which is used to be responsible for many …show more content…
In this case, it is important that the person seek a dietitian that give better nutrition program to keep his body as fit as possible. Likewise, patients should ask their doctors healthy exercise routines that can help keep their body in shape.
Remove from lifestyle:
• Leaving the job: this may be one of the hardest things to do for a patient with Mesothelioma. Leaving work involves more free time and more time accompanied by his relatives, besides that, it is necessary in order to attend to medical appointments and treatments. The concern of maintaining financially the house should not worry the patient anymore, the same for housework; all these pass to be held by his caregivers.
• Quitting continuous smoking and drinking: due to illness and the treatment of this, the body of patients tend to suffer a lot of difficulties in their immune system (which is in charge of fighting the harmful cells, in this case carcinogenic cells). For this reason, it is imperative that patients put aside vices like smoking and drinking, stressing that this tumor mainly affects the lungs and organs of the abdominal area and therefore the treatment as is really strong leads to these areas being
Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer that develops primarily from direct or indirect exposure to asbestos. When people are diagnosed with this disease (as with any type of cancer) most of the time is at a high age and there are many things that they must change in their style and rhythm of life. Here there will be exhibited in detail the things that should add to their lives people under these conditions and the things that they should stop doing in order to extend their life expectancy.
Add to lifestyle:
• Receiving care from their relatives: it is very common that the person affected by Mesothelioma is the head of the family which is used to be responsible for many …show more content…
In this case, it is important that the person seek a dietitian that give better nutrition program to keep his body as fit as possible. Likewise, patients should ask their doctors healthy exercise routines that can help keep their body in shape.
Remove from lifestyle:
• Leaving the job: this may be one of the hardest things to do for a patient with Mesothelioma. Leaving work involves more free time and more time accompanied by his relatives, besides that, it is necessary in order to attend to medical appointments and treatments. The concern of maintaining financially the house should not worry the patient anymore, the same for housework; all these pass to be held by his caregivers.
• Quitting continuous smoking and drinking: due to illness and the treatment of this, the body of patients tend to suffer a lot of difficulties in their immune system (which is in charge of fighting the harmful cells, in this case carcinogenic cells). For this reason, it is imperative that patients put aside vices like smoking and drinking, stressing that this tumor mainly affects the lungs and organs of the abdominal area and therefore the treatment as is really strong leads to these areas being