cancer caused by inhaled asbestos fibers that affects the membrane lining the lungs and chest cavity.

Cancer of the pleura (membrane lining the lungs and chest cavity). Pleural Mesothelioma is different from lung cancer, which refers to any type of malignant tumor that originates in the lungs, while Pleural Mesothelioma effects the pleura.

a cancer that is found in the sac lining of the chest, covering areas around the lungs and inside the ribs.

Cancer of the lining that surrounds the lungs.

A type of cancer found in people who have been exposed to asbestos. Pleural mesothelioma occurs in the pleura, a sac lining the lungs, and has no known cure.

Mesothelioma of the pleura, a thin layer of tissue that covers the lungs and lines the interior wall of the chest cavity.

Pleural mesothelioma is a cancer of the lining that surrounds the lung.