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Should Health Insurers Cover Lung Cancer Screening with Low Dose CAT Scans? by JaanS Medical Doctor

Posted Mon 09 Apr 2012 8:35pm Testing for hidden early lung cancer Remember this article on screening for lung cancer ? More than 54,000 former and current tobacco users who looked like they were free of cancer were randomly assigned to a yearly cheapo chest x-ray vs. a yearly pricey low-radiation-dose CAT scan. Over 5 to 7 years of follow-up, the CAT sc ... Read on »

Can CAT Scans Prevent Lung Cancer? Smoke and Mirrors by MKirschMD Posted Sun 07 Nov 2010 3:17am I still marvel at the accomplishments of CAT scans and imaging studies. These technologies have revolutionized the medical profession. Imagine foretelling 50 years ago that a new technology would emerge that could perform ‘exploratory surgery’ without an incision. This prediction would be greeted with disbelief, if not scoffing. Of course, t ... Read on »

Lung cancer metastasis: new drugs in the market? by Dr. Nagaraj

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Posted Thu 05 Nov 2009 5:12am Lung cancer: The lungs are a pair of cone-shaped breathing organs in the chest. The lungs bring oxygen into the body as you breathe in. They release carbon dioxide, a waste product of the body’s cells, as you breathe out. Each lung has sections called lobes. The left lung has two lobes. The right lung is slightly larger and has three lobes. Tw ... Read on »

Lung Cancer Screening – Is It Truly Beneficial? by rajesh moganti

Posted Thu 18 Nov 2010 1:44am Lately the NCI make public the preliminary trial outcomes regarding lung cancer screening among individuals in the age band of fifty-five to seventy-four years of age who were smokers with a track record of 219000 cigarettes in their lifetime. That many cigarettes bear equivalence to a packet daily for three decades or duo packets daily for fif ... Read on »

Fighting colon and lung cancer by WhatNext.com Posted Thu 19 Jan 2012 10:08am I was diagnosed with stage 2 colon cancer, and lost 60% of my colon. The surgery was hard. And now after a cat scan of my lungs the doctor found cancer in my lung. It is hard fighting cancer. The hardest is having to fight it with no income. All i get is 200 a month food stamps and with no family that can help it is so hard. I am having to go wit ... Read on »

Novel Lung Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Fighting Early-Stage Lung Cancer by COPDsurvivor Patient Expert

Posted Thu 23 Apr 2009 5:25pm An experimental vaccine that triggers the patient’s immune system to identify and attack specific tumor cells is showing new promise for the treatment of early lung cancer. Thoracic surgeons at Rush University Medical Center are researching the vaccine called MAGE-A3 Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic, which is designed to kill cancer ... Read on »

Lung Cancer Alliance-Georgia Hails Senate Leadership on Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2009 by Health: Hearsay & Headlines Posted Mon 07 Dec 2009 12:00am /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance-Georgia (LCA-GA) acknowledged Senators Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) for their leadership and support in establishing the first ever multi-agency, comprehensive program targeted at lung cancer. Entitled Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2009, S.332 authorizes a five year pr ... Read on »

Lung cancer trial results show mortality benefit with low-dose CT:Twenty percent fewer lung cancer deaths seen among those who w by Cancer.gov Posted Wed 03 Nov 2010 9:00pm Lung cancer trial results show mortality benefit with low-dose CT: Twenty percent fewer lung cancer deaths seen among those who were screened with low-dose spiral CT than with chest X-ray The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is today releasing initial results from a large-scale test of screening methods to reduce deaths from lun ... Read on »

Lung cancer trial results show mortality benefit with low-dose CT:Twenty percent fewer lung cancer deaths seen among those who w by Cancer.gov Posted Thu 04 Nov 2010 12:00am ... Read on »

SECOND HAND SMOKE...SHOULD I BE CONCERNED? by Helpful Buckeye Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Posted Mon 07 Jan 2013 12:00am OK, the snafu for publishing the blog has been remedied...for now. Let's see if this gets everybody caught up and on the same page! The topics of smoking and second hand smoke still make appearances from time to time in the popular new media and various professional publications. Helpful Buckeye suspects that we will probably rea ... Read on »