LungBlog

Felicia Monticelli’s cancer hasn’t stopped her from doing the things she enjoys most, like showing her artistic side.Doctors diagnosed Monticelli with lung cancer in August 2005, even though she was never a smoker. In fact, she led a healthy lifestyle and was an avid runner and hiker.

The Society for Women’s Health Research gathered three lung cancer experts on Capitol Hill on September 17, 2007 to inform Congress on the need for increased funding to research lung cancer and its impact on women.

The new breast cancer treatment plan and summary template joins a colorectal treatment template published online earlier this year. ASCO is continuing to develop and test treatment plans and summaries for additional cancer diagnoses, including lung cancer.

The generous gift is being made in memory of Florence Hays Erb, who recently passed away due to lung cancer. Florrie Erb was an entrepreneur and co-founder of ERB Industries with her husband, Bill, a graduate of The Georgia Institute of Technology and M.I.T.

In early September, Fessenden High School`s Family and Consumer Science Teacher had emergency brain surgery. One week later she was back at school in front on her class. Even though she is fighting lung cancer which has spread to her brain, she refuses to give up.

In the time it takes to read the next few paragraphs, someone will die of lung cancer somewhere in the world.

The Global Lung Cancer Coalition says lung cancer consumes one human being every 30 seconds – more than breast and prostate cancer combined, with another 1.2 million new cases diagnosed every year.

Since lung cancer has outstripped breast cancer as a killer of women, younger smokers have to be constantly created to fill the death gap.

 U.S.-Italian drug firm Cell Therapeutics Inc has begun a late-stage clinical trial involving its Xyotax drug for women with an advanced form of lung cancer, the company said on Monday.

Co In clinical research, patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer that are classified as having a non-squamous histology achieve statistically significant higher survival when treated in the second-line setting with ALIMTA (pemetrexed for injection) when compared to histologically-similar patients treated with docetaxel.

According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths around the world, claiming 1.3 million lives each year. Statistics show that nearly 60% of people die within one year of diagnosis. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp A new system that classifies many tumors as more treatable than in year’s past will provide thousands of lung cancer patients with new options.