Getting the best information available regarding your condition is important in order to better understand your treatment options. Make sure that you have every opportunity to fight the disease, so that you can live as long as possible. For the most part, your physician will advise you as to whether the institution’s associates have a special interest in Asbestos related diseases and treats more than 50 cases of mesothelioma per year. If those resources are not at your physician’s disposal, he or she should recommend a second opinion at a cancer center, which is a specialized institution to which he can refer you for mesothelioma. You should not lose your primary physician or the physician who made this initial diagnosis as your advocates. He or she will play a crucial role in coordinating your care with the cancer center by making the initial contact (referral), and often by coordinating the testing to be done close to your home, so that when you visit the cancer center much of the workup will already have been performed.
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