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Brian Williams Made a HUGE Factual Error -- Please LET HIM KNOW!
- By Cancerblog · New reply yesterday at 7:34 pm
- 16 replies
- Go to NBC and listen to the first story about breast cancer screening. I wrote to NBC about the factual error of their reporting. You should write them and ask everyone you know to write them uring them ...
Great American Smoke Out is Thursday
- By Curmudgeon · New reply November 19, 2009
- 17 replies
- I hope that everyone here gets on everyone's case that is still smoking and gets them to quit ...
Genetic fingerprinting massachusettes general hospital
- By sunmaid · New reply November 19, 2009
- 14 replies
- http://www.massgeneral.org/cancer ...
LCA Releases 5th Annual Report Card on the State of Lung Cancer
- By kcofrancesco · Posted November 19, 2009
- 0 replies
- WASHINGTON, DC [November 19, 2009]--Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) released its annual National Report Card on Lung Cancer, an overall assessment of efforts to reduce lung cancer’s mortality. 2009 ...
lung cancer awareness month..november
- By brendab50 · New reply November 19, 2009
- 4 replies
- isn't it sad that you still do not see it in the papers or on the news? i did call my local paper in pembroke mass and an article was written last week. is it going to take the worry of the President ...
November is looking kind of pink
- By linnea · New reply November 19, 2009
- 11 replies
- Remember the Cat in the Hat story where this little pink spot just kept spreading until it covered everything? On the front page of the Boston Globe yesterday and all over the internet was the news that ...
LC etiquette on Blog Talk Radio
- By lorihope · New reply November 18, 2009
- 9 replies
- Greetings, All- Lynne Eldridge, MD, the About.com lung cancer guide, posted an article today about the interview I’m doing on the “Real Women on Health†Blog Talk Radio show this Thursday. I asked ...
GOOD NEWS IN LC TREATMENTS
- By kitkat4ever · New reply November 18, 2009
- 1 reply
- Importance of ALK gene in lung cancer. A small phase 1 study found that patients with NSCLC tumors that contain a somatic genetic change — the translocation of the EML4 and ALK genes — had a significant ...
Looking to start advocacy group in Michigan
- By curelungcancer · New reply November 18, 2009
- 20 replies
- Hi all advocates and survivors! I'm a survivor and advocate and am looking for others in Michigan to hook up with to share and to spread awareness here in our home state. Send me a note ...
Nancy Grace show
- By karenere · New reply November 17, 2009
- 16 replies
- Did anyone see the ending of the Nancy Grace show last night? She acknowledged that Nov. is lung cancer awareness month and how it kills more people than other cancers combined. she also posted cancer ...
Preventative Brain Radiation for Lung Cancer
- By gpawelski · New reply November 17, 2009
- 3 replies
- A new study is taking a closer look at the benefits versus risks for lung cancer patients to undergo preventative brain radiation therapy as a means to stop cancer from spreading to the brain. Study results ...
My effort with local media
- By Jeanetteb · New reply November 17, 2009
- 8 replies
- This was the third of three e-mails sent since Nov. 1 Good luck in the future. "Channel 2" , "Congressman Dan Boren" , "Doug Cox" , "LeAnne Taylor" , desk@ktultv.net, grovesun@gmail.com, grandchr@grand-chronicle.com ...
Post removed SCAM
- By cards7up · New reply November 16, 2009
- 6 replies
- Just a few minutes ago there were two posts asking if you wanted to quit smoking the easy way. Or something to that affect. They mentioned Dr. Oz and another doctor, actually putting them down and were ...
ALK / Genetic Testing
- By PattiK · New reply November 13, 2009
- 6 replies
- I am alive today because of the Pfizer trial at Mass General Hospital Cancer Center and Dr. Alice Shaw. I too, a non smoker, healthy, non symptomatic at 47 was diagnoised with stage lV lung cancer. They ...
Dr. Lung Love ROCKS!!!
- By who-me · New reply November 13, 2009
- 9 replies
- There is NO such thing as BAD publicity when it comes to lc!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7bOk5IQ_ cE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJx_7bJgj 6Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFDq2nqBN fc&NR=1 ...
ABC News report on new treatment for lung cancer
- By catsdogs · New reply November 12, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi, my name is Rose. My partner Gary had cancer of the throat three years ago. It went into remission after a brutal course of both chemo and radiation. Now, it has metastasized into both lungs and the ...
New Lung Cancer drug
- By Nona · New reply November 12, 2009
- 8 replies
- New lung cancer wonder drug offers cure hope for deadliest form of disease By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:39 AM on 11th November 2009 Comments (7) Add to My Stories Breakthrough: Scientists ...
LCA Releases New Video in Awareness Series
- By kcofrancesco · New reply November 12, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hello All, LCA just released the newest video in our awareness series featuring Dr. Lung Love. Check it out! www.lunglove.com! Kay kay@lungcanceralliance.org ...
The Smoking Stigma -- What Are the Facts?
- By Cancerblog · New reply November 11, 2009
- 6 replies
- It seems like if we are going to fight the lung cancer stigma, we should start with facts. I was curious about the liklihood of getting lung cancer if you smoked. I found the following article, published ...
New Experimental Lung Cancer Drug
- By Sallythenurse · New reply November 11, 2009
- 5 replies
- Check out this report from the local ABC affiliate. Experimental Treatment for Lung Cancer (video report) – WCVB-TV, Ch. 5 http://www.thebostonchannel.com/video/21 534993/index.html I hope this is Pandora's ...