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Winthrop-University Hospital’s Advances in Cancer Care educational series will offer a free program, “The New Face of Lung Cancer: Personalized Medicine,” on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 7:00 PM. It will be held at Winthrop’s Community Outreach Center, located at 101 Mineola Boulevard at the corner of Second Street in Mineola.
Jeffrey Schneider, MD, Director of the Lung Cancer Center at Winthrop, will explain a new approach to personalized treatment and how it promises to provide meaningful breakthroughs for patients.

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Jill McKay found out she had lung cancer in June. She died in July. Lung cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer… In April Jill McKay felt a pain in her calf.
At age 46, slim and in terrific shape, McKay thought it was a pulled muscle.
Turns out, it was the first sign of blood clots in her legs and lungs — the first symptom of the inoperable lung cancer that would take her life by the end of July.

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Proteomics is expected to play a key role in cancer biomarker discovery. Although it has become feasible to rapidly analyze proteins from crude cell extracts using mass spectrometry, complex sample composition hampers this type of measurement. Therefore, for effective proteome analysis, it becomes critical to enrich samples for the analytes of interest. Despite that one-third of the proteins in eukaryotic cells are thought to be phosphorylated at some point in their life cycle, only a low percentage of intracellular proteins is phosphorylated at a given time.

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Lung cancer support advocates could be forgiven for feeling a tad ignored.
November is lung cancer awareness month. Of course, it comes right after October, when everything, it seems, is draped in pink because of breast cancer awareness month.
While breast cancer survival rates have bolted over the past few decades, the same cannot be said of lung cancer. The five-year survival rate in 1971 was 13.2 percent for all lung cancer patients; today, it has risen to only 15 percent.
There is an awareness gap with lung cancer, according to a local lung cancer advocate.

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In his debut memoir, “No Expiration Dates: A Cancer Patient’s Strategies for Survival” (published by iUniverse), Leon Weisman recounts his unique and inspirational battle with lung cancer while also offering practical advice about the emotional and social changes that a cancer diagnosis can bring to a patient as well as a family embarking on the fight to stay alive.

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Hundreds of clear balloons were released Monday afternoon in the memory and honor of Indiana residents who have battled or are battling lung cancer.

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Patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with preventative brain radiation (called prophylactic cranial irradiation or PCI), significantly decrease their risk of developing brain metastases (cancer spread in the brain) by more than 50 percent (from 18 percent to 8 percent), compared to those who did not receive the treatment, according to a randomized study presented at the plenary session November 2, 2009, at the 51st Annual Meeting of American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

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Key areas of lung cancer care are still “woefully inadequate”, a report by leading lung cancer experts says.
The UK Lung Cancer Care Coalition, an umbrella group composed of doctors, charities and private health firms, says UK care lags behind Europe.
It says too few patients are receiving treatment, such as chemotherapy or surgery, because of staff shortages.
The government says it already recognises that more needs to be done to improve lung cancer services.

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MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ — superDimension, Inc.®, a private company that develops minimally invasive interventional pulmonology devices, announced today that The American Medical Association (AMA) has issued a new Category I CPT® code for the use of the Company’s electromagnetic navigational bronchoscopy(ENB) device to navigate to lesions or spots deep in the lungs. The code will become effective January 1, 2010. The AMA also issued a new CPT I® code for the placement of fiducial radiosurgical markers via the ENB procedure.

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For those of you unfamiliar with Philly’s Phinest or are visiting Philly2Philly.com for the first time, we profile those who are making a difference in their community. Sometimes, life has hit a rough patch for them that makes their stories or testimonies all the more awe-inspiring. Yes, it makes for good headlines. But that’s not what it’s about. These are the real heroes of everyday life. The ones who don’t get the credit they deserve because their names aren’t Ryan Howard or Chase Utley. Not that there’s anything wrong with celebrating your successful baseball team, but this is reality. This is life.
This particular individual whom we are profiling continues to inspire and draw inspiration from everyone who has heard her story. What is even more impressive is the fact that she passed away just over a year ago.

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