LungBlog

He was the most high-profile labor leader in a state known for its stiff opposition to unions. He was a Democratic state senator in arguably the most Republican state in the union. He fought for causes that were unpopular among the majority of his colleagues. 
Yet it is hard to find anyone who did not like Ed Mayne, the longest serving state AFL-CIO president in the United States. 
Mayne died of cancer at his home Sunday at the age of 62.

Rep. Julia Carson, a former secretary who rose to become Indianapolis’ first African-American congresswoman, has announced she has terminal lung cancer, a newspaper reports.

Most experts agree it’s wise to tell children what’s going on at an age-appropriate level, with simple, straightforward language. Kids need repeated reassurance that their needs will be met, they can’t catch cancer like a cold, and it’s not their fault. (Even some teenagers blame themselves, assuming their yelling or bad behavior made the patient sick.) The American Cancer Society has detailed advice for talking with children about cancer on its Web site, cancer.org.

Dartmouth College researchers have discovered that, contrary to popular belief, it is rural patients–not urbanites–who receive the earlier cancer diagnosis. These findings, according to a press release from Dartmouth, is applicable at least for those who wound up receiving diagnoses of colorectal cancer and lung cancer–two diseases most treatable when caught early.

Hazardous dioxins emitted from the provincial garbage incinerator have been blamed for a rise in cancer cases. Kosol Tang-utai, adviser to the Phuket provincial administration organisation, said the dioxin level in Phuket was 40 times the acceptable standard.High dioxin exposure was behind the sharp rise in new respiratory and lung cancer cases in men and breast and cervical cancer cases in women.

When Jamie Young went to the doctor with a nagging cough about five years ago, the last thing she thought she’d be told was she had lung cancer.

If you inhale it in the air or ingest it in water and those alpha particles release in your stomach or lung it can damage the DNA in the cell, “and that can potentially cause cancer,” she says. “We primarily think of it with lung cancer.”