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Category Archives for Lung Cancer
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
Continue readingLung 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
Continue readingAdvanced 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
Continue readingImmunotherapy, 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
Continue readingLung 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
Continue readingLung 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
Continue readingWhere 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
Continue readingLung 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
Continue readingRe-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
Continue readingLung 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
Continue readingFish 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
Continue readingLess is More- Stage III Lung Cancer
“For patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer, standard-dose chemoradiation therapy is better than high-dose treatment, with higher five-year overall survival rates” You’ve
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