WHAT IS MESOTHELIOMA?
Types of Mesothelioma: There are four types of mesothelioma: pleural (lung), peritoneal (abdomen), pericardium (heart) and testicular. Pleural and peritoneal are the most common types, comprising nearly 90 percent of all diagnoses. Learn more about the form and what it means for your treatment options. Medical experts recognize four main types of mesothelioma - each named for the area of the body where cancer. The most common type, pleural mesothelioma develops in the lining of the lungs. The peritoneal mesothelioma forms the peritoneum, the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity. This is the second most prevalent type. The vast majority of the specific mesothelioma treat patients with one of these two types. The rarer forms of the disease is pericardial and testicular mesothelioma. Pericardial mesothelioma starts in the lining of the heart, while the testes mesothelioma developed in the inner wall of the testes. Together, these types account for less than 2 percent of all m...