LungBlog

A Japanese study suggests that early in lung cancer’s progression, cells within a tumor may pave the way for cancer’s invasion by triggering processes that allow for the spread of disease. By interrupting these signals, researchers were able to block the development of cancer’s spread to lungs in mice.

It’s terrifying enough to find out you have lung cancer. Then it may take months to know if chemotherapy is working. But a clinical trial underway in Knoxville can speed up the process and save lives.

 Dr. Eric Haura, a medical oncologist at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, will receive a three-year award totaling $450,000 from The ASCO Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Irish folk singer TOMMY MAKEM is battling lung cancer, but refuses to let the disease stop him from touring.

Now in remission, O’Laughlin joined doctors and patients yesterday for a conference at Foothills hospital dedicated to dispelling myths about the disease.

“There’s a huge stigma attached to it,” she said. “It’s not just a smoker’s disease.”

There’s a clan of former and current employees at the Neptune Seafood House who desperately want to help Mike Lima, a friend in need that was dealt two heavy blows in the past two years.

First, his home was destroyed by Katrina.

Then he got lung cancer.

Health is always on the minds of Canadian women, but Lung Cancer Canada wants to make lung health a priority. Lung cancer kills more women than any other cancer, yet many don’t know it. In a recent Lung Cancer Canada/Ipsos Reid survey, only 15 per cent of women named lung cancer as the number one cancer killer of women, compared to the two-Thirds (66 percent) who said breast cancer. Furthermore, when asked which cancer they are most concerned about affecting their lives and the lives of their families, only one in five women (22 per cent) cited lung cancer.

November is lung cancer Awareness Month. The Tribune has published one article by Terry Rindfleisch interviewing Dr. Roger Kwong on the subject. Other than reporting on Dana Reeves and Peter Jennings, this article is virtually the only feature article on lung cancer in years.