Lung Cancer Blog (Page 1)

  1. Cancer Treated with Radiation Therapy

    September 3, 2010, 9:52 pm

  3. Stage 4 lung cancer - lung cancer stages - lung cancer from smoking - lung detox

    September 3, 2010, 3:20 pm

  4. Tumor budding identified as predictor for unfavorable outcome in lung cancer

    September 2, 2010, 5:56 pm
    Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and the prognosis is generally poor, even if surgery is successful. Furthermore, the incidence of one type of lung cancer, adenocarcinoma, has been increasing in recent years. A better understanding of the changes in tumor cell biology that result in a more aggressive neoplastic phenotype (characteristic of an abnormal mass of tissue ...

  6. How can my lady Pat live through her new diagnosis of Lung Cancer?

    September 1, 2010, 2:27 pm
    She has been diagnosed with Non small cell Broncioalveolar carcinoma in right lung of about 3cm, no lymph node envolvement, probably no matasties in the other lung but cannot be possitive of this. She is a long distance swimmer in the cold ocean so is quite fit and has stopped smoking, which she did only several a day until several months ago. She has been a medical assistant to a good oncologist for many years so her treatment will be good medically. I am only hoping that there are other approaches to hopefullness as the medical ones are not very promissing.

  7. Top job! Christie’s hits the high point

    September 1, 2010, 2:18 pm
    Buildres have ‘topped out’ Salford's new cancer centre – marking the start of the final phase of work on the £17m development. Christie’s bosses and developers gathered to celebrate the moment the highest part of the building was lowered into place at Salford Royal Hospital.

  8. Palliative Care Improved Survival in NSCLC

    August 31, 2010, 4:40 pm
    ... in parallel with standard oncologic care, led to a significant improvement in survival in patients with metastatic nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). ...

  9. Fighting Lung Cancer: The Winship Difference

    August 30, 2010, 5:14 pm

  10. Why Insulin Potentiation Therapy (ipt) For Cancer Deserves More Research

    August 29, 2010, 11:41 am
    With society's intense focus on scientific study and clinical trials, the value of case studies often falls by the wayside. So it is with the alternative cancer treatment Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT); there are numerous reports from over 65 years of use, but few structured clinical trials have been performed. The large number of individual testimonies, as opposed to large scientific studies, is the strongest evidence for the therapy. This is, perhaps, one of the largest obstacles to IPT...(read more)

  11. Medicare Expands Coverage To Help Seniors Quit Smoking

    August 26, 2010, 3:59 pm
    ... diagnosed with cancer or heart disease, it is often too late for tobacco cessation treatments. The 1-year relative survival for lung cancer increased ...

  12. "watchful Waiting" With Elevated Psa Results May Give Rise To A Medical Malpractice Claim

    August 25, 2010, 1:20 pm
    Doctors use the PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) blood test as one way to screen men for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer tends to raise the PSA level in the bloodstream as the cancer progresses. Doctors generally consider a PSA above 4.0 ng/mL to be elevated and thus recommend that an elevated PSA result should be followed by a TRUS guided biopsy in order to rule out prostate...(read more)