LungBlog

Richmond Police Department recently lost one of its most important furry employees.

Rico, a six-year-old drug-sniffing K-9 dog, was euthanized June 17 after an inexplicable lung cancer diagnosis.

RPD officer Jamie Mastriano said he spent four years with the Belgian malinois dog as his partner.

Author Barbara Howe doesn’t consider herself a writer. But when her husband of 26 years was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005, she sat down at the computer and started typing.

The foundation draws in £3m a year in grants and donations and it grants £1.5m out for research into the early detection of lung cancer.

Professor Ray Donnelly, founder and president of the Foundation, said: “The important thing is the current building, which was built for lung cancer research, will continue. However we have got too big for the administration, fundraising, and tobacco control staff.

“The university will now have more opportunity to move in other cancer specialists, creating a wonderful centre for cancer research.

When he was 10, Kelton noticed a lump on the left side of his jaw. He was diagnosed with adenoma carcinoma of his parotid salivary gland — a rare cancer for someone so young.

After surgery to remove the lump and radiation treatments, Kelton’s follow-up tests were cancer-free until last February, when spots were noticed on his lungs.

It was determined that the cancer — stage 4 metastatic non-small cell lung cancer — had moved into his lungs, kidneys and his left leg.

A.E. Hotchner, who co-founded Newman’s Own salad dressing company with the actor in the 1980s, said he had been fighting the disease for at least 18 months.
Speculation had been rife that Newman had lung cancer after he looked unwell in recent photographs.

A federal judge yesterday sealed portions of a lawsuit that alleges the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and other parties should have known that the lungs they transplanted into a Newark, N.J., man were diseased.

 1 of 3 Nevada women who were awarded millions in damages in a drug-company lawsuit has died.Pamela Forrester was 65-years-old and under hospice care for lung cancer when she died Thursday.

First diagnosed with lung cancer at age 23, Katherine–a non-smoker–began a long road of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Five years later and after six recurrences, she succumbed to her  disease. In Wilson’s photograph, titled “This is Not a Dress Rehearsal,” a smiling Katherine and her  father playfully remove their hats to display their bald heads – Katherine’s from her cancer  treatments and her father’s a result of his sympathetic shaving.
“Katherine’s cancer diagnosis changed our family in unexpected ways,” said Wilson. “From the  earliest days, she proved that she would not let this disease negatively impact the rest of her life.  The photograph shows how much she believed that – even in those days after first learning about her  diagnosis.”

Former BBC Wales sports correspondent Bob Humphrys has confirmed he has (lung) cancer.Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Humphrys, whose older brother John presents Radio 4’s Today programme, said of the diagnosis: “It did seem rather unjust”.

“In my life, I’d had just one puff of a cigarette when I was 10 and spent all of the following day throwing up.”

Norrie Brown was diagnosed with lung cancer four-and-a-half years ago. After having one lung removed, a tumour was discovered in the other and he began chemotherapy. After the first treatment session his condition had stabilised enough for him to plan a holiday to America. But when he inquired about travel insurance, and explained his medical condition, he was quoted a price of more than £6000. He declined.