“ Thanks for the helpful posting. It is also my opinion that mesothelioma has an extremely long latency phase, which means that symptoms of the disease might not emerge right until 30 to 50 years after the primary exposure to asbestos fiber. Pleural mesothelioma, which is the most common sort and has an effect on the area around the lungs, will cause shortness of breath, breasts pains, and a persistent cough, which may cause coughing up our blood. ”