LungBlog

 Cancer patients and their families know probably better than anyone about the importance of soldiering on. We do it quietly every day, not by running for the nation’s highest office, but by raising kids, going to work, walking the dog, or even putting away the clean laundry that’s been sitting folded in the basket for weeks.

So John Edwards’ announcement to continue with his Democratic political ambitions isn’t that surprising, despite the news that his wife’s breast cancer has spread to her bones and possibly her lungs — pushing the family back into that netherworld of cancer uncertainty. “We’re not going to cower in a corner,” John Edwards said staunchly.

“The regimen of screening determines how early the cancer is diagnosed. This is critical, as it provides the opportunity for earlier treatment which can be curative,” said NY-ELCAP principal investigator Claudia I. Henschke, Ph.D., M.D., professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and chief of the divisions of chest imaging and health care policy and technology assessment at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. “Following the appropriate regimen also markedly decreases unnecessary work-up and biopsies,” she added.

A therapeutic anti-cancer vaccine being developed by Cuban scientists is expected to give new hopes for patients in the advanced stage of lung cancer in terms of a longer survival rate and better quality of life.

A minimally invasive procedure called radiofrequency (RF) ablation is an effective treatment for patients with inoperable lung cancer, U.S. researchers report.

In RF ablation, doctors insert a special needle that transmits high-frequency electrical currents into a tumor.

Computed tomography screening done annually identifies a high proportion of patients with early-stage lung cancer, a New York study found.The latest findings of the New York Early Lung Cancer Action Project published in the April issue of the journal Radiology found CT results prompted recommendations for further work-up on 14 percent of the 6,295 baseline screening participants. Also, 6 percent of the 6,014 repeat screening participants were referred for further investigation.

Principal investigator Dr Claudia I Henschke told Reuters Health that when CT screening is performed it is important to use an approach that is well-defined and well-tested to identify the patients who need further testing, what testing is needed and when it should be done.

Lung cancer patients who are not candidates for surgery now have another safe and effective treatment option: radiofrequency (RF) ablation, according to a new study published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

More than 160,000 Americans die each year from lung cancer—more than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined.

Annual computed tomography (CT) screening identifies a high proportion of patients with early-stage lung cancer, according to the latest findings of the New York Early Lung Cancer Action Project (NY-ELCAP) published in the April issue of the journal Radiology.

Bioponic Phytoceuticals, Inc. today announced that its Curecumin(TM) (a Bioresonant Phytotherapeutic(R) form of Turmeric containing curcumin in a liquid nasal delivery system) may be an important treatment for Lung Cancer.