Increasing number of Mesothelioma cases seen in Texas Hospital

Dr. Roy Smythe, Chairman, Department of surgery at the Temple of Scott & White Clinic Healthcare in Temple, Texas, says that he will be two to four new mesothelioma patients every month, and he believes there is still more coming to the clinic to visit other doctors.  Smythe, formerly of the Department of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at m. d. Anderson Cancer Center, one of the top mesothelioma specialists in the country.

Mesothelioma is a serious cancer that occurs in individuals exposed to airborne asbestos fibres.Most vulnerable to the disease where workers with professions such as insulators, plumbers and pipefitters, electricians, sheet metal workers, auto mechanics, refinery and factory workers and shipbuilding workers. disease has an enhanced latency period and 30 to 50 years after exposure to asbestos.

Texas and Gulf Region are some of the United State's largest refining and oil industry companies, as well as several of the busiest yards.  Workers in these industries that were exposed to asbestos years ago can only seeking treatment for their symptoms associated with Mesothelioma.

Smythe focuses his practice on patients who have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, mesothelioma, eyes conservation lesions of lung cancer, esophageal cancer, benign lung diseases and chest wall tumors.Smythe has received many prizes and awards throughout his career including 2007 consumers Research Council Best Surgeons in America, and the best doctors in the United States for the 2003-2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008.

Scott & White Healthcare is a fully integrated healthcare – the largest multi-specialty practice in Texas and the sixth largest group practices in the nation for the seventh straight year, Scott & White has been ranked among the 100 Top hospitals in Thomson, the country is based on clinical competence, patient safety and satisfaction, operating efficiency and community response times; Study names Scott & White among the elite large teaching hospitals in the country.

Increase in the number of Mesothelioma patients