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top environmental risk factors for nonsmokers. Most people don’t realize they only need lungs to get lung cancer, says Dr. Philip Bonomi, a medical oncologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Here are nine more things you may not know about lung cancer and lung cancer survival...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death and is responsible for more than a quarter of all deaths due to cancer in the United States. Patients whose cancer is diagnosed early, before it spreads, have a 5-year survival rate of 52%; however, just 15% of lung cancers are...
Asbestos lung cancer patients have a median survival of 9 months, although many live for years after diagnosis. Factors affecting prognosis include cancer stage at diagnosis, type of cancer (SCLC or NSCLC) and patient health. Advances in screening and treatment continue to improve outcomes for many...
inflammation can lower your immune function, make you more susceptible for upper-respiratory infections that can increase the risk of short- and long-term lung problems, and increase your risk of chronic health issues, including allergies, asthma, chronic bronchitis, lung disease, and lung cancer....
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There has been some remarkable progress in recent years in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. 160,000 Americans die annually from lung cancer making it second only to heart disease as a cause of death and slightly more than the next four canc
) According to the World Health Organisation, diesel exhaust fumes - the ones we, and our children, breath in lungfuls of every day - are a "major cancer risk", on a par with "asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas". Danger posed by traffic fumes; FEEDBACK The players returned with lungful...
Lung cancer is fast-moving – the sooner the medical intervention, the better. “Seventy-five percent of patients are found when they’re at stage three or four, where we can’t do a surgery to cure them,” Dr. Michael Pritchett, a pulmonologist, explains. “We need something that change...
Lung cancer can spread to any region of the body, butmost commonly spreadsto the liver, the lymph nodes, the brain, the bones, and the adrenal glands. Oftentimes, lung cancer will spread to more than one area of the body. For example, it's common to have both liver metastases and bra...