LungBlog

As NCI lung cancer researcher Phillip A. Dennis pointed out in the journal Science in 2004, breast cancer received nine times the funding per death as lung cancer. “Important health issues such as diarrhea, influenza, and lung cancer may not be sexy, but they deserve the public’s attention and commitment from policymakers and the scientific community,” he wrote.

Framed photos covered the long table in the dining room of Timmy Walsh earlier this month.

A hobby photographer, Timmy was selling his photography of turtles, ducks, flags and other odds and ends to raise money for lung cancer research.

What might surprise most is Timmy is a 6-year-old kindergartner.

Residents living around a factory here that produced asbestos products for decades have a death rate from lung cancer that is about three times higher than the national average, an Osaka health official has announced.Shinji Kumagai, head of the environmental health division at the Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, announced the finding on Sunday concerning residents living around the Hashima factory of Nichias Corp.

There have been few reports regarding long time survival after lung cancer surgery. The influence of age and pulmonary function on long time survival is still not fully discovered.

Some reports suggest that hospitals with a high surgical volume have better results. The aim of this study was to evaluate lung cancer surgery performed in a county hospital in terms of 30 days mortality, complications and predictors of long time survival.

When Heather Saler was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2003, she was determined to do something about it.A nonsmoker, she was bothered by the stigma surrounding lung cancer victims, and frustrated when looking for a coherent, national movement dedicated to funding lung cancer research, such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer.

A mother-of-two recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer has faced further heartache after cash donated by her best friend so she could go shopping and cheer herself up was stolen.

Not to be confused with the New York City heavy metal band of the same name, the “Twisted Sisters” are four siblings from the Woonsocket area whose mission is to raise awareness and money in the fight against lung cancer.

US researchers have identified 26 genes that are frequently mutated in people who develop adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer, a discovery that could further lead to individualized therapies to fight the disease.

Workers at the Fernald uranium processing plant near Cincinnati were exposed to a second, possibly more dangerous source of radon, a new study has found.  Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have identified six uranium-ore silos in the plant’s production area that they say that exposed 12 percent of the workers there to dangerously high levels of radon.  More than half of the workers at the plant would have been exposed to low levels of radon, the study said.

Among the States of India with high prevalence rate of lung cancer, Manipur stands second.

Mizoram occupies the top position.