LungBlog

Today is a bittersweet day. Have you ever begun to grieve the end of something, while you are still in the midst of the celebration? I feel like a bride during her wedding dance already missing the guests. But on this last day of Lung Cancer Awareness Month it’s time for me to take the advice of my holistic friends. Stay in the present. Appreciate the efforts of everyone who is working so hard, and do what I can today.

Late diagnosis of cancer needlessly kills up to 10,000 patients every year, the Government’s director of cancer services has revealed.

Professor Mike Richards will this week unveil a shocking study of the three deadliest forms  -  lung, bowel and breast cancer  -  showing that early detection could save twice as many lives as previously thought.

A LUNG cancer patient has spoken of his determination to continue living his life as normal as a new drive sets out to raise awareness of the symptoms of the disease.

John Belchamber spoke out during lung cancer awareness month as Macmillan Cancer Support and the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation joined forces to urge people to look out for symptoms and seek help from their GP.

Lung cancer patients in Herefordshire three times more likely to die within a year than those in Kensington and Chelsea…

The country’s biggest cancer charity has expressed shock at government figures revealing huge variations in patients’ chances of surviving from one area of the UK to another. The biggest survival gap was in lung cancer, where Department of Health figures showed patients in Herefordshire were three times more likely to die within a year of diagnosis than those in Kensington and Chelsea. In the London borough, 44% of patients survived the first year after diagnosis, compared with only 15% in Herefordshire.

A SPECIALLY-BREWED beer to raise money for lung cancer research is on sale in some Brains pubs.

The beer is part of the massive bid to raise £1m for Velindre Cancer Centre’s Stepping Stones appeal, which will culminate in 15 former Wales rugby captains climbing Kilimanjaro.

The beer has been temporarily called Captain’s Climb Ale as its final name will be decided by Echo readers. A Media Wales competition – the closing date is today – has been running for the past six weeks to find a name for the beer.

So today I woke up with lung cancer… WTF?? Then I realized maybe I shouldn’t have followed the suggestion of this 1936 Camel ad advising me to smoke after every Thanksgiving course.

Lung cancer is still the most common cause of death from cancer, both in men and women. Some optimism can be gained from the fact that the lung cancer death rate in men peaked in 1984, and has slowly declined since. This decline appears mostly related to the decreasing use of cigarettes in men in the 1960s and 1970s rather than improvements in diagnosis or therapy. In women the lung cancer death rate has continued to increase although it may have recently reached a plateau.

Pinpointing the exact location of a lung cancer tumor and the extent of pleural effusion in mesothelioma is difficult with the traditional imaging techniques such as CT and MRI. Lung cancer tumors move with breathing, circulation and heartbeats making it difficult to focus radiation treatments and to evaluate the extent of disease.

A torn ACL four years ago changed Becky Augustin’s life. She underwent knee surgery, and during her recovery, she developed pneumonia.

A nonsmoker, Augustin, now 55, never thought she would develop lung cancer. But the X-ray performed to diagnose her pneumonia also detected a suspicious spot on her lungs.

Your lungs remove carbon dioxide from your blood before enriching it with oxygen and sending it back to your heart. If cells within any of the lobes develop abnormally, they can become cancerous. If lung cancer (LC) forms, it can spread throughout the rest of your body.

One of the challenges of this disease is that symptoms do not manifest in a quarter of diagnosed cases. The affliction is identified through a routine computerized tomography scan or chest X-rays.