Lung cancer in dogs is a very serious health condition for your dog…

Symptoms can include, fluid on the lungs, blood clots in the lungs, lameness, lethargy and weight loss.

Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States. Now, new technologies are making it easier and less expensive to detect it early.

But is Medicare making it too hard for patients to get access to them? 2 Investigator Pam Zekman looks at one company’s struggle to get a procedure approved.

Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy — or ENB – gives physicians a virtual tour of a patient’s lungs

“This is a potentially very powerful tool in the toolbox (against) lung cancer,” says Dan Sullivan, president of a company called superDimension, which developed and markets ENB.

The state Department of Veterans’ Affairs would receive funding to conduct a lung cancer detection study under a bill receiving general file consideration Feb. 17.

LB987, introduced by Omaha Sen. Bob Krist, would require the department to contract with the University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases for a study with a sample of up to 500 veterans to validate diagnostic technology for the early detection of lung cancer. The department would be required to report the results of the study to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2011.

The aroma of seared meat as your pan-fried steak is prepared may set your tastebuds tingling – but it may also give the chef cancer, especially if they are using a gas cooker.

Cooking fumes produced during high-temperature frying are already known to cause cancer. In China, high lung cancer rates among chefs have been linked to the practice of tossing food in a wok, often in a confined space, which increases the concentration of hot oil in the breathing zone of the cook.

Did you know that February 4, 2010 has been designated World Cancer Day? Begun in 2005 by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), World Cancer Day is a global initiative meant to raise awareness of cancer causes, prevention, research and treatment. Particularly important is educating the public about less-common cancers, such as mesothelioma.

Sometimes referred to as “asbestos cancer,” mesothelioma is often confused with lung cancer, but is actually a different disease. Mesothelioma targets the mesothelium, which is a thin membrane covering and protecting not only the lungs, but the heart and stomach as well. It also lines the thoracic and abdominal cavities, creating a dual layer. Like lung cancer, it can severely inhibit breathing, since one of the effects of mesothelioma is to fill this pleural space with fluid, which in turn makes it difficult for the lungs to fully expand.

How touching for cast member Kathryn Joosten!

Joosten, who plays Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives, recently overcame lung cancer learning she was cancer-free this past January and now her character on the show will experience a similar situation.

But Mrs. McCluskey’s story will have a happy ending as well!

Even though she will announce that doctors have found a spot on one of her lungs, she and her boyfriend Roy Bender played by Orson Bean will take off in a car with Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher) and Mike Delfino (James Denton) and get married!

The first ever actuarial analysis of lung cancer mortality, published today in Population Health Management Journal,  provides strong evidence that earlier detection could reduce the number of late stage lung cancer deaths by over 70,000 people each year in the US.

Calling the number “profound,” Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) President Laurie Fenton-Ambrose said, “This would be the equivalent of eliminating all deaths from breast and prostate cancer each year.  It clearly demonstrates why we must make research and development of earlier detection tools for lung cancer a public health priority.”

Yes. Your job — your occupation — could cause lung cancer.

A new study estimates that 5% of lung cancers in men are related to on-the-job exposure to chemicals and other materials (previous studies have placed the estimate at anywhere between 13 and 29%). Considering lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for men in the U.S. and worldwide, this is not a small number.

A major piece of the mystery surrounding cancer has been found: a scientist has discovered a protein that initiates the process that causes cancer to spread from the original tumor to other parts of the body. The report appears in Nature Cell Biology.

The process that releases cancer cells from their original tumor and allows them to spread throughout the body is called epithelial-mesenchymal transdifferentiation (EMT). The spread and development of the cancer cells into new tumors in other sites in the body is known as metastasis.

Men who work in certain occupations continue to be at increased risk of lung cancer, new research from Italy shows.

In fact, about 5 percent of lung cancers in men are job-related, Dario Consonni of the IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan and associates found.

While cigarettes are by far the most important cause of lung cancer, chemicals and other on-the-job hazards “play a remarkable role” in lung cancer risk, the researchers write in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

To provide updated information on these risks, they looked at the association between lung cancer and jobs either known or suspected to increase the risk of the disease in 2,100 people diagnosed with lung cancer and 2,120 healthy individuals matched by age, gender and residence.