Determining survival rates for lung cancer can be tricky. Several factors will affect how long someone lives after being diagnosed with lung cancer, including the overall health of the patient, the type of cancer, and whether the disease has spread elsewhere in the body. Understanding Survival Rat...
Surgery to remove part or all of the lung is the preferred treatment for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer, and it may cure the cancer. Doctors rarely treat small-cell lung cancer with surgery because the cancer has often already spread by the time it is diagnosed. The surgeon removes...
Teva Harrison, author of In Between Days, has been living with metastatic breast cancer since 2013. Article content At 37, Teva Harrison led a busy life. Her job with the Nature Conservancy of Canada had her working long hours and travelling to conferences. She ...
Yoga may be uniquely suited to address bio-psycho-social concerns among adults with gynecologic cancer because it can be tailored to individuals’ nee
Lung cancer is often detected too late. For Healthy Lung Month, learn how early detection of lung cancer saved one woman's life.
After my husband Paul was diagnosed with lung cancer, he said, “It’s going to be OK.” And I remember answering back, “Yes. We just don’t know what OK means yet.”Paul and I met as medical students at Yale. I fell in love with him as I watched the ___he took with his ...
To compare the ex ante willingness to pay (WTP) of healthy individuals for generous insurance coverage of novel lung cancer treatments to the WTP for coverage of such treatment among individuals with lung cancer. Methods A survey was administered to 2 cohorts of US adults: (1) healthy individua...
If you don’t know how you were exposed to asbestos, our team is here to help. We’ll ask you a few questions about your life and work history to determine this for you. Around 3,000 Americans are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year, which makes this cancer very rare. ...
Throughout all of E’s struggles through cancer, her father as well was struggling. He was diagnosed two months before E’s diagnosis, with lung cancer. The two of them began with the same oncologist in Butler. Eventually, his health had gone downhill very quickly, and he could barely br...
My mom sat me on the floor and opened her mouth to give me the most words I'd ever heard: “Grandma Billie has been diagnosed with cancer.” Tears filled my eyes immediately. Mom continued, “Grandma is old and her body is too . There’s nothing they can do to treat her.” I kn...