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melanoma stage IV article

n92241
  • By n92241 · New reply May 9, 2013
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  • http://www.edhtelegraph.com/article/el-d orado-hills-resident-targeting-skin-canc er-awareness ...

Radon

mamanolte
  • By mamanolte · Posted May 4, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • This is scary on so many levels. http://www.upworthy.com/in-case-you-miss ed-it-a-seriously-scary-thing-is-schedul ed-to-happen-to-new-york-city-in-nov Cheryll ...

Valerie Harper in National Archives - must see TV!

hard2handle
  • By hard2handle · New reply May 2, 2013
  • 10 replies
  • Ok, Davstar, here's a little inspiration for you, posted by one of the "realists" ;) Stable is good! Watch it this evening, I think you will enjoy it. My favorite quote make sure you're "... living while ...

News from Australia

mamanolte
  • By mamanolte · New reply April 25, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • This could be promising. http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/new -treatment-pioneered-at-peter-mac-boosts -lung-cancer-survival-rates/story-e6frfk p9-1226625682569 ...

HER2 mutation

mamanolte
  • By mamanolte · New reply April 24, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • http://www.news-medical.net/news/2013042 3/Study-suggests-lung-cancer-patients-wi th-HER2-mutations-may-benefit-from-anti- HER2-drugs.aspx ...

Lobectomy for Limited SCLC

ichope4me
  • By ichope4me · New reply April 23, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • http://lungcancer.about.com/od/surger1/f /Surgery-Small-Cell-Lung-Cancer.htm I had a lobectomy for LSCLC ...

Chemo brain

ichope4me
  • By ichope4me · New reply April 23, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/special-c ontent/spring-2013/february-2013/rutgers -neuroscienti-20130220 ...

Time Magazine: The Conspiracy To End Cancer

Sallid
  • By Sallid · New reply April 15, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • A very informative read. http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/01/th e-conspiracy-to-end-cancer ...

What do you do right after you get up in the morning?

shiftcolors
  • By shiftcolors · New reply April 7, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-News /cigarettes-cancer-smoking-morning-cigar ette/2013/04/05/id/498054 ...

Cancer Drugs Cut for Medicare Patients

shiftcolors
  • By shiftcolors · New reply April 7, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonk blog/wp/2013/04/03/cancer-clinics-are-tu rning-away-thousands-of-medicare-patient s-blame-the-sequester ...

Drug shortages

shiftcolors
  • By shiftcolors · New reply April 3, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio n/2013/03/22/drug-shortages-cancer/20107 21 ...

Is this misleading, or what?

munkitoes
  • By munkitoes · New reply March 30, 2013
  • 35 replies
  • Is this misleading, or am I misinformed? I just saw a commercial on the ABC Evening News that goes like this: Mary J. Blige goes all gung-ho in front of a group of what appears to be students in a library ...

Fuda Cancer Hospital

Cynthia84
  • By Cynthia84 · New reply March 26, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • Hi everyone, My name is Cynthia and my mother has Adenocarcinoma lung cancer that has spread in her lungs, has a few minuscule tumors in the neck, the liver and the head. We started her with chemotherapy ...

Valerie Harper Has Lepto : (

Prayformomma
  • By Prayformomma · New reply March 19, 2013
  • 15 replies
  • http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/peopl e/2013/03/06/valerie-harper-has-terminal -brain-cancer/1966543 ...

Survivor statistics

JK-25yearsurvivor
  • By JK-25yearsurvivor · New reply March 16, 2013
  • 34 replies
  • I am celebrating my 25th year as a Lung Cancer survivor!! When I was diagnosed the survival rate was @ 5% and that has only risen to 15% in the last 25 years. I'm wondering about how many others have ...

Gene Therapy Targeting Myc Protein Cures Tumors in Lab Mice

Sallid
  • By Sallid · New reply March 12, 2013
  • 5 replies
  • [Excerpt] Lung cancer was cured in mice that had up to 200 tumors, with a gene therapy that blocked the production of a protein that drives tumor development. The gene therapy targeted the Myc protein ...

IBM's Watson computer takes on lung cancer

KatInNM
  • By KatInNM · New reply March 11, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • The supercomputer that beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy will be helping evaluate lung cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering! http://newyork.newsday.com/business/ibm- s-watson-tackles-lung-cancer-1.4628217 ...

A Big Loss for Lung Cancer Research

squanch
  • By squanch · New reply March 9, 2013
  • 16 replies
  • The US budget sequestration that took effect today will drastically reduce research and development -- including lung cancer R&D -- at universities and corporations. While research that is funded by private ...

Upsurge in Non smokers getting Lung Cancer

shiftcolors
  • By shiftcolors · New reply March 8, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/da nger-air-protect-yourself-lung-cancer-16 3300381.html ...

5 MINUTE TEST DETECTS LUNG CANCER WITH 100% ACCURACY AND COSTS 3 CENTS!

dolcinia
  • By dolcinia · New reply February 28, 2013
  • 19 replies
  • There's videos on You Tube, and an article in Wikipedia. Finally having checked it out, I think this is the most hopeful news I've heard since I've been on here. The test also works for early detection ...

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