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Abstract
Background: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare but aggressive and often fatal malignancy. Most patients present with advanced disease, and the median overall survival is approximately one year.
Objective: To review the cases of malignant mesothelioma admitted to Imbaba Chest Hospital in the period between 2013 and 2016.
Subjects and Methods: The current study spotted the light over the malignant mesothelioma from epidemiological view, as a retrospective cohort study, conducted on all cases of malignant mesothelioma that were diagnosed at Embaba Chest Hospital in the period between 2013 until 2016 to explore the incidence of that disease and its characteristic features. The medical records of patients had been revised for the demographic criteria of patients, which included; age, sex, smoking status, residence and occupation, clinical presentation of cases, radiological findings, cytological examination of pleural fluid, pleural biopsy either thoracoscopic or open, and finally, histopathological diagnosis.
Results: The prevalence of mesothelioma across years of the study was 1.5% (60 out of 4000cases) with increasing annual incidence; 1.7, 2 and 2.3% respectively. The mean age of mesothelioma patients was 57.96 years, most of them above 40 years (91.67%) and more than half of them were males (55%). In spite of decreasing percentage of male with mesothelioma within the study time (2014-2016), which was accompanied with increasing the percentage of female patients, it did not reach statistical significance.
Conclusion: The overall incidence of malignant mesothelioma was 1.5% with increasing annual incidence from 1.7% up to 2.3%. The male gender was the more presentable one with gradual growing of female percent. The urban area was more affected than the rural one, specially the area near industries. Non-exposed persons (unemployed industrial workers) showed higher frequency of MM. Right-sided MM was more common than Left one, beside that the epithelial form of MM was the dominant histological pattern.