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A Los Angeles hospital where patients were exposed to X-ray radiation overdoses during CT scans says its investigation found the affected patients could be at higher risk for cataracts.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said in a statement Monday that about 20 percent of the 260 patients affected — up from its initial finding of 206 patients — had radiation exposure to the lens of their eyes.

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Stereotactic body radiation contained early-stage, medically inoperable lung cancer at its site of origin in all but one patient involved in a small clinical trial reported here.
One of 55 patients had local failure at three years, resulting in a local control rate of 98%, Robert D. Timmerman, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and colleagues found.

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With health care as the number one issue in the public square, and in recognition of November’s designation as Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a new website offering support and information for lung cancer victims and survivors has launched. TheFaceofLungCancer.org is a unique site whose sole purpose is to provide information and online support for victims and survivors of lung cancer and the people close to them.

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Can screening with CT scans save the lives of those at risk of lung cancer? Some say yes, but others say scans might hurt, not help.
For the 42 percent of Americans who smoke cigarettes or once did, a ruling from the state’s highest court last month seemed to offer hope that a simple screening tool could help them ward off advanced lung cancer.

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Treatment with statins in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was associated with a reduced risk of death from extrapulmonary cancer in a Dutch study.
Although COPD has a well known association with lung cancer, its relationship with extrapulmonary cancers is less well defined. Furthermore, “it is not known whether the risk of COPD and cancer mortality can be modulated by pharmacologic treatment,” Dr. Don Poldermans, from Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam told Reuters Health in an email.

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Low body mass index (BMI) is strongly associated with an increased risk of lung cancer among current smokers, researchers report in the November issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
“Our study was based on a nationally representative prospective cohort study of (about) 220,000 men in China, where mean BMI is relatively low and lung cancer mortality is high despite (the fact) that few have smoked cigarettes persistently over the last few decades,” lead investigator Dr. Ling Yang from the University of Oxford, UK, told Reuters Health. “It has confirmed the fundamental importance of smoking as a major cause of lung cancer.”

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On Karen McCluskey: She’ll return during the Christmas party; while portrayer Kathyrn Joosten is pushing to use her real-life cancer scare on the show. Said Daily:
“Kathryn is very keen on us doing a lung cancer story. She’s very active in lung cancer charities so is pushing for this, and we’re seeing if we can find a way to do it.”

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One argument you may hear against health care reform concerns cancer survival rates. The United States has higher cancer survivor rates than countries with national health care systems, we’re told. Doesn’t this mean we should keep what we’ve got and not change it?
Certainly cancer survival rates are a critical issue for people suffering from the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma. So let’s look at this claim and see if there is any substance to it.
First, it’s important to understand that “cancer survival rate” doesn’t mean the rate of people who are cured of a cancer. The cancer survival rate is the percentage of people who survive a certain type of cancer for a specific amount of time, usually five years after diagnosis.

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Hospital hosts benefit, educational luncheon
The Orange Park Medical Center will present “Hope Is In Reach,” an educational luncheon and benefit designed to share the latest leading-edge medical advancements in the early diagnosis of lung cancer and other lung diseases.
The luncheon is Tuesday  from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel, 245 Water St., downtown.
The keynote speaker will be Times-Union reporter Jessie-Lynne Kerr, who has been chronicling her battle with lung cancer in stories in the newspaper.
Stuart Millstone of Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates will speak about the latest tool in lung cancer detection, the “superDimension inReach System.”

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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month and the “Great American Smokeout.”
What a terrific time to draw attention to an ever-increasing issue that faces many New Jersey (and Warren County) residents, says Community Prevention Resources of Warren County, Inc.’s Leeanne Del Prado, Community Partnerships Coordinator for a Tobacco Free NJ.

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