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Why are there no lapel ribbons for lung cancer? There simply aren’t enough survivors to amass a movement.
Every day, about 500 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer. The disease surpassed breast cancer in 1985 as the largest killer of women.
With few early symptoms and no techniques for early detection, lung cancer is rarely caught before reaching stage 4. Five years after diagnosis, only 15 percent of lung cancer victims are still alive, a statistic that has been static for 40 years.
Also, there is a stigma attached, because lung cancer is seen as a smoker’s disease. On that point, it’s time for an update.
“Sixty percent of the newly diagnosed lung cancer cases are either people who never smoked or people who quit smoking decades ago,” says Bonnie Addario, a lung cancer survivor and founder of the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, based in San Francisco.
“Very often, people with a chronic [...]

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A team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has confirmed the efficacy of a potential ‘HIV-test’ equivalent for the early detection of lung cancer.The test relies on immune-system signals, much like an HIV test. It can detect the presence of lung cancer a year prior to diagnosis, long before symptoms appear.

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Clinical Lab Products magazine features Biomoda, Inc. and its proprietary early lung cancer screening assay as one of the more promising advances in the cancer diagnostic technology. The August national magazine article makes particular note of the assay’s simplicity that leads to large scale screening of lung cancer using automated equipment.

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Patients diagnosed with lung cancer could see the odds of being successfully treated raised significantly by a new blood test designed to give early warning.

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Dogs have long been accepted as man’s best friend. But nosy ones have provided inspiration to a laser research team working on early cancer detection methods to devise a breathalyzer-type tool that could significantly improve survival rates for suffering millions.

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According to a report presented at the International Brain Mapping & Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society Conference at the University of California, the device can provide surgeons operating on areas such as brain tissue, where spotting tumor tissue from healthy cells is troublesome, with invaluable information.
The new device has shown promising results in diagnosing lung cancer and diabetes in patients who have breathed into the device

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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With the glaring proof that early detection would severely decrease the death toll of lung cancer, it is difficult to believe that there is a controversy at all. Can one put a price on quality of life? The reality of the dose of radiation is that the screening is administered with no more radiation than a woman would receive during a mammogram (I-ELCAP). Just think of how much radiation one would receive if they were being treated for their cancer with radiation therapy? “The availability of early detection for lung cancer is widely unknown, inexcusably underencouraged, underfunded, and underinsured.” (Bonnie J. Addario) I believe that prescreening with the low-dose CT scan is the way to prolong survival of this horrific disease.

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Early cancer detection can significantly improve survival rates. Current diagnostic tests often fail to detect cancer in the earliest stages and at the same time expose a patient to the harmful effects of radiation. Led by Dr. Patrick McCann, a small group of internationally known researchers at the University of Oklahoma with expertise in the development of mid-infrared lasers is working to create a sensor to detect biomarker gases exhaled in the breath of a person with cancer.

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Researchers continue to make strides in cancer treatment. They do admit more pancreatic and lung cancer research needs to be done, but those cancers spread too fast before being detected.Doctor William Phelps, a researcher with the American Cancer Society in Charleston last week, says combination therapies appear to be the treatment of the future. Phelps says the rationale is that cancer is a combination of different diseases.

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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The New England Journal of Medicine published a third correction to a contentious medical study on the advisability of screening for lung cancer, weakening one of the study’s findings.
Unlike for colon cancer and breast cancer, regular screening isn’t common for lung cancer, the largest cancer killer. No study has clearly shown that screening for lung cancer would reduce the death rate, as opposed to simply finding deadly tumors earlier.

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