Monday, January 02, 2006

Mesothelioma: Word of the Year

Let me introduce you the word of the year 2005. This is the most top paying word. mesothelioma is the word I said. Looking for the meaning in Google gave 4.52 M results. The main resource of mesotheolioma is hosted at http://www.mesotheliomaweb.org/. According to the meaning found in Google and the main web, mesothelioma seems to be a kind of disease. Wikipedia said that it is a kind of cancer.

Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer, usually associated with previous exposure to asbestos. In this disease, malignant (cancerous) cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body’s internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart).

Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fibre in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products.
Wikipedia

There are so many blogs about mesothelioma in Technorati. In any case, the word "mesothelioma" was searched for the most. The second one is "cancer mesothelioma" so it must be cancer for sure.

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