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5 Things to Know About Mesothelioma Life Expectancy
After receiving a mesothelioma diagnosis, for many the biggest question is: “How long will I survive?” Unfortunately, determining mesothelioma life expectancy is a complicated question that can vary widely between patients for a number of individual factors.
It can be easy to feel discouraged when looking at mesothelioma survival statistics across all patients, as they paint a rather bleak picture. But it’s important to remember mesothelioma will develop differently in each individual, and there is hope to extend survival.
What Is Life Expectancy?
It can be easy to confuse prognosis, survival rates, and life expectancy, since all of these terms relate to how long you can expect to live after your mesothelioma diagnosis. Life expectancy means the average amount of time a person is expected to survive. When hearing the term “average life expectancy,” patients should remember this means about half of mesothelioma patients survive longer or shorter periods of time.
Average mesothelioma life expectancy ranges from about one year to 24 months. Research shows around 40% of mesothelioma patients survive over one year after diagnosis, though overall only about 9% live longer than five years. Again, these averages take into account all mesothelioma cases, including those with each type and stage of the cancer. Patients need to discuss with their mesothelioma doctor the factors that will make up their own expected survival.
What Determines Your Mesothelioma Life Expectancy?
There are many factors that will influence your prognosis. One of the most important factors in determining your survival is the stage at which you are diagnosed. Stage 1 or stage 2 mesothelioma indicates little to no spreading, so it is much easier to target and remove tumors and cancerous cells with treatments like surgery and chemotherapy. On average, patients at these earlier stages have a life expectancy of 19 to 21 months or more.
As the cancer becomes more advanced and spreads to other parts of the body or the lymph nodes, it is much more difficult to treat. Median survival for patients diagnosed with stage 3 or stage 4 mesothelioma is about 12 to 16 months.
The type and cell type of mesothelioma you have also have a big influence on prognosis. For instance, peritoneal mesothelioma with the most common cell type (epithelioid) has the longest life expectancy at 54 months on average. Pleural mesothelioma with the same cell type only has a life expectancy of 19 months. Epithelioid cells respond the best to treatment, and patients with this cell type survive on average 18 – 24 months.
Sarcomatoid cells, on the other hand, are the rarest and also the most difficult to treat, thus leading to a worse prognosis. Patients diagnosed with biphasic mesothelioma, which is a mix of the other cell types, see more varied life expectancy, depending on which cell type is more dominant.
Regardless of cell type, peritoneal mesothelioma patients have seen better survival rates in more recent years compared to the other types. About 92% of peritoneal mesothelioma patients survive one year after diagnosis, while 73% of pleural mesothelioma patients survive one year. Though this isn’t a huge disparity, as time goes peritoneal patients tend to see longer survival. There isn’t much research available around the rarest type, pericardial mesothelioma. This form of mesothelioma develops in the lining of the heart, and often isn’t even diagnosed until posthumously.
Other factors that can impact your life expectancy include:
Age
Gender
Overall health
Genetics
Smoking history
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