When: Saturday, October 3

Where: Holmes Lake Park in Lincoln Nebraska

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October 3, 2009 Free to Breathe® – Lung Cancer Fun Run/Walk: First annual Free to Breathe® 5K Fun Run/Walk and 1 Mile Walk in Lincoln. Make a difference in the lives of those affected by lung cancer by raising public awareness and vital research funding to empower patients, save lives and make the fight against lung cancer a priority…

Alarm bells rang loud and piercing in my head this past week, as I listened to someone comment about lung cancer being a smoker’s disease. “Lung cancer in never smokers is rare.” What really sent that proverbial fingernail on the chalkboard sensation traveling south from my head was that these words were spoken not by a neighbor, or even the next person in line at the grocery store checkout. They were spoken by an oncologist from a major cancer center.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has drastically cut the maximum amount of radon, a naturally occurring gas, that should be permitted in homes because of strong evidence it causes lung cancer.

In a WHO Handbook on Indoor Radon issued quietly on Monday, it called for public health authorities and the construction industry to make great reductions in exposure to radon, calling it a “major and growing public health threat in homes”.

Berlin, Germany: Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who are given cetuximab (Erbitux) in addition to chemotherapy are 13% less likely to die than those who receive chemotherapy alone, regardless of which chemotherapy drug cocktail is used, new research finds. They also experience slower disease progression and an increased chance of tumour shrinkage.

Among women who already have lung cancer, hormone replacement therapy – which has been tied to a higher risk of serious conditions including breast cancer and heart attacks – seems to increase the risk of death from the tumor, according to a new study.

Grape Stomp raises research funds for overlooked disease…

A type of disease that doesn’t typically get a lot of talk time — or fundraisers — got its day yesterday when La Vendemmia once again partnered with the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation.While prostate cancer, breast cancer and other women’s cancers are popular causes, the fight against lung cancer tends to be quieter, even though lung cancer is the biggest killer of all the cancers of both men and women in Canada, said Dr. Douglas Gray, who leads lung cancer research at the Ottawa Hospital.

Thousands laced up their sneakers Sunday morning. It was a chance to get some exercise and battle lung disease as runners and walkers took on the 2009 Corporate Cup…

Giving pemetrexed maintenance therapy to patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have not had disease progression after initial platinum-based chemotherapy improves both overall and progression-free survival… More than 1 million people worldwide die every year from lung cancer, and more than 87% of these cases are non-small-cell lung cancer. About 40% of patients have advanced disease at presentation.

Women who take controversial hormone replacement therapy drugs to combat symptoms of the menopause could be more likely to die if they develop lung cancer.

An eight-year study of 16,600 women found the disease was 71 per cent more likely to be fatal in women taking HRT compared with those taking a placebo pill.

Maintenance therapy with the drug pemetrexed improves the survival of people with non-small-cell lung cancer whose disease has not progressed after chemotherapy, a new study has found.

Nearly 90 percent of all people who die from lung cancer have non-small-cell tumors. At the time the cancer is discovered, it’s considered advanced about 40 percent of the time…