A rare type of cancer that normally affects the heart, abdomen and outer lining of the lungs, is mesothelioma. Around two to three thousand cases of mesothelioma are reported annually in the United States, this is equal to around three percent of the United States cancer diagnoses. The disease occurs around four times more often in men than it does in women. All forms other than benign Mesothelioma are inevitably fatal.

Life expectancy for patients is normally reported as less than on year a...