Health workers can help people with mesothelioma cancer
Field health workers can learn about mesothelioma cancer prevention and treatment and share their learning with others.
Help the person with mesothelioma cancer and his family:
Help them to feel that they are not alone.
Introduce them to other people who have had similar experiences.
Help them find healthy food and transportation, help them manage their homes and children, and this can be done by involving community groups, religious institutions, or government services.
Keep a list of clinics, doctors, and organizations that help people with mesothelioma cancer in your area or country.
Help the person with mesothelioma cancer cope with his pain, discomfort, and fear.
Help people with mesothelioma cancer and their families to avoid people who take a lot of money from them and make their condition worse by making false promises to give them miraculous health.
Work on mesothelioma cancer awareness and prevention:
Encourage people to learn the early signs of cancer and not be afraid to get tested or treated because it is important to do so at an early stage.
Conduct learning sessions to help quit smoking.
Get people vaccinated against hepatitis B and HPV.
Get women tested for cervical cancer and other cancers if health authorities have the opportunity to do so.
Train yourself or other health care professionals to treat any type of cancer. Midwives can learn how to diagnose and prevent cervical mesothelioma cancer.
Help people get together to keep chemicals and other pollutants away from water, land, and air in the area.
Encourage people to help and treat people with mesothelioma cancer, and not to blame them for their illness.