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Search Results for: Lung Cancer

Atrial Fibrillation in Lung Cancer

Atrial fibrillation in lung cancer is a serious long term side effect. And it should come as no surprise that radiation therapy increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (Afib) in lung cancer patients.

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Lung Cancer Screening Complications

I am a long-term cancer survivor whose wife has smoked cigarettes her entire adult life. When I first read about low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) and lung cancer screening I thought that my wife was

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Lung Cancer Prevention

Lung Cancer Prevention takes a different approach to reducing lung cancer deaths than does the article linked and excerpted below. The article below talks about lung cancer screening. Screening for lung

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Advanced Lung Cancer- Palliative Care

Palliative care works well for advanced lung cancer. By “works” I’m saying that, according to the study linked and excerpted below, managing your lung cancer may be better than undergoing

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Immunotherapy, Hyperprogressive Disease & Lung Cancer

The therapy backfires in a newly defined subset of lung cancer patients who experience accelerated tumor growth indicative of hyperprogressive disease  All toxic therapies have short, long-term and late

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Lung Cancer Metastasized? Cryotherapy…

Like virtually all cancer procedures, prostatectomy, lumpectomy, etc. the success rate of freezing matastasized lung cancer tumors depends on the professional doing the procedure. Has your lung cancer

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Lung Cancer- “Significant Improvement…”

“We were encouraged by the findings overall,” “And that advanced lung cancer patients undergoing treatment are not too sick to participate in a behavioral supportive intervention…” A

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Where you Treat Your Lung Cancer Makes a Difference!

Lung Cancer Patients treated at academic centers also had a lower risk of death;4-year Overall Survival rates were 25% and 19% among patients treated at academic and non-academic centers, respectively Where

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Lung Cancer Blood Testing – Predict Relapse-

“When lung cancer (LC) is caught in its earliest stages, before the tumors have spread to other organs…for many, outcomes are good. Through treatment, lung cancer can be cured… Yes, early

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Re-Sensitize, Enhance Sensitivity of Lung Cancer to Chemotherapy

Curcumin sensitizes lung cancer (LC) to cisplatin, disulfiram re-sensitizes lung cancer to cisplatin- both non-conventional therapies increase the efficacy of lung cancer to cisplatin… Einstein supposedly

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Lung Cancer Metastasized to Brain- Pencil Proton Therapy?

So I signed up to undergo 28 separate daily treatments with Pencil Proton Therapy for my brain tumor. I will receive a total of 50 Grays after all the treatments are completed. Hi David: Thanks for your

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Fish Oil, Lung Cancer Response by 60%

“Adding fish oil resulted in a greater response rate at 60% compared with 25.8% with the SOC…Overall survival at 1 year trended toward improvement with fish oil compared with SOC” If

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