You may be suffering from lung cancer (LC) without realizing it. It can lay hidden for years. In fact, in many cases, the disease can metastasize (spread outside the site of origin) before symptoms present. Making matters worse, one of the most common symptoms is a persistent, nagging cough. The cough is often dismissed as little more than the sign of a common cold.

The uptake of the radiopharmaceutical fluoro methyl tyrosine (FMT) on PET imaging in patients with pulmonary adenocarcinoma is a significant independent predictor of poor prognosis, according to research published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

“We found that FMT uptake correlated with the expression of L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1) and that both LAT1 expression and FMT uptake were significantly higher in non-adenocarcinomatous disease than in adenocarcinoma,” wrote the authors of the study.

New Zealand scientists have discovered a new class of drugs that could become the next big thing in the treatment of lung cancer.

Medicinal chemist Dr Jeffrey Smaill and cancer biologist Dr Adam Patterson, investigators with the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, have just arrived back in New Zealand from the world’s premier conference for molecular targets and cancer therapeutics in Boston, US, where they announced the discovery of a new class of anti-cancer drugs.

Lung cancer is a serious health problem affecting both men and women. It is the largest cause of cancer related deaths in men and is the second cause of cancer related deaths in women. What many people might not know is that lung cancer is the result of several different things and not just from smoking tobacco alone. Whatever the causes of lung cancer, it is important for us to know what the common lung cancer symptoms are so that we you take early remedial or corrective actions to contain or cure this deadly disease. Early effective medical intervention increases the percentage of an early cure from the disease.

As I looked over the most recent New York State report card on lung cancer from the Lung Cancer Alliance (one that, thankfully, does not resemble my children’s report cards), I was feeling discouraged. This is lung cancer awareness month, and I want to party! Yet the pink themed parties of last month had more milestones to celebrate.

When some types of tissue become cancerous, there are the options of surgical removal or aggressive treatment to the affected area. Unfortunately, these choices are not always available to cancer patients whose illness has originated in the lungs. Because they are both delicate and vital to sustaining life, diseases that affect these organs often have grim prognoses.

If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with cancerous tumors in the lung, you do not need to give up hope. While the statistics may not be encouraging, some people with this disease manage to live for years or even see their illness go into remission. While there is no cure for this disease, there are steps you can take that may improve your prognosis (long-term expectancies).

Art Savage, who brought Triple-A baseball to the Sacramento area with the River Cats and served as the first president of the San Jose Sharks, died unexpectedly Saturday.

He was 58.

Savage collapsed at his home, his son said. He had been recovering from lung cancer.

Research presented last week at a major cancer research conference suggests that morphine, which is regularly prescribed to cancer patients to treat pain, may actually spur cancer growth. For the past seven years, the notion that opiates might stimulate cancer growth has slowly been gaining attention in the medical research community, beginning with anecdotal evidence that patients treated with alternative pain maintenance regimes—or those given opiate blockers during treatment—tended to survive longer than patients treated with the routine pain relief medications.

People with cancer and their families have a new hope at the new Integris Cancer Institute of Oklahoma.

Officials gathered last week to dedicate the new 135,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility next door to the Pro Cure Proton Therapy Center in Northwest Oklahoma City.

Governor Henry got a firsthand look last week at one of the linear accelerators at the new Integris Cancer center of Oklahoma near North MacArthur and Memorial Road in Oklahoma City.

If you’re drinking green tea solely for the carcinoma protection, you could be interested in the result of a methodical review of studies that involved more than 1.6 million subjects taking a look at the benefits of green tea.

The review finds ‘limited’ evidence that the green variety of tea offers any protective benefits… Though it remains a natural, savory drink just the same.