4. Pain in the chest or abdomen
Stomach pain or mid-chest pain can be ignored for such a long time, usually in the hope that it’ll go away. Some cancer patients even admit that they had learned to live with symptoms that they knew just weren’t right. As cheesy as it sounds, you really do need to trust your gut and then get it off your chest.
Any delays with seeking diagnosis and treatment will only serve to fuel the rate at which cancer progresses, should these pain symptoms be caused by mesothelioma that is. There are investigative options which can help to determine the cause of the pain.
Laparoscopy is where the inside of the chest or abdomen is looked at in great detail, through a camera that gains access via a long thin cable, inserted through a tiny incision, with the patient under anesthetic. During this investigation, samples of tissue may be removed for analysis in a laboratory.