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• Dr. Lung Love - Waitin’ Room Service

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 141
  November is Lung Cancer Awareness month, and a hip-hop MD has parodied Pitbull’s Hotel Room Service to help spread the cause. Hey DJ! I want everybody to stop what theyre doing. Now if you know that lung cancer is the number one cancer killer of women, And youre gonna take yo momma, grandmomma to Dr. [...]
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• What does radiation do for cancer patients?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 136
  We found out today that my grandmother has cancer and my mother said that the oncologist is planning on using radiation to ease her pain. My question is, what does radiation do? I know, eases pain, but how?She has lung cancer which has spread to her bones (her back, more specifically).
  21 hours ago

• How Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Is Treated

  
  Health and Wellness — Authority: 147
  How Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Is Treated When you breathe, air flows down your trachea, through your bronchi, and into your lungs. When a person develops non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), it usually (though, not always) begins within the bronchi. Once it forms, the cancer generates chemicals that help produce new ...
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• How to lose weight when almost confined to bed?

  
  Diet Tips — Authority: 140
  My mom had heart & lung failure a few years back. She had to have a tracheotomy tube put in and sleeps on a vent machine at night to assist her lungs under her body’s weight. She also has degenerative osteoarthritis. If she lost some weight she could lose the tube and [...]
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• Lung Cancer Survivor

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 141
  This is an interview with a lung cancer survivor and her doctors.
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• PET Imaging Response A Prognostic Factor After Thoracic Radiation Therapy For Lung Cancer

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study presented by researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at the 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting.
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• Oncolytics Biotech(R) Inc. Collaborators Present Positive Phase II Sarcoma Trial Results At CTOS Annual Meeting

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) ("Oncolytics" or the "Company") announced updated results from a Phase II study of intravenous REOLYSIN(R) in patients with sarcomas metastatic to the lung in a poster presentation at the 15th Annual Connective Tissue Oncology Society Meeting held in Miami Beach, ...
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• Health News - NAPSTV - Moffitt Cancer Center

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 141
  HEREʼS A FACT ABOUT CANCER THAT MAY TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY: ACCORDING TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL, DEATHS FROM LUNG CANCER HAVE DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. NEVERTHELESS, MORE PEOPLE DIE OF LUNG CANCER THAN FROM COLON, BREAST AND PROSTATE CANCER COMBINED EVERY YEAR. WHATʼS MORE, DESPITE ...
  2 days ago

• New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center) Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men [...]
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• PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  (Thomas Jefferson University) A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to [...]
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• Mesothelioma Remains A Concern For Construction Workers

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 128
  Virtually no aspect of the construction field has been untouched by asbestos. Particularly during the mid-twentieth century, when a boom in babies led to a boom in construction, this so-called miracle mineral was widely used at every stage of commercial and residential construction. Unfortunately, however, the ...
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• Gifted Project: Shaping A Genetic Future Through Children’s Dreams And Fantasies

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Gifted is a project by Will Carey which seeks ways of shaping the future by engaging with the generation who will be faced with such scenarios and decisions, seeking the reactions and opinions of children themselves.  It raises questions about how children could use their fantasies and dreams to imagine an ...
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• Agawam residents hold a vigil to raise lung cancer awareness

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 141
  Trying to raise awareness and funding to conquer a killer. A candle-light vigil in Agawam was meant to shine a light on the number one cancer killer, Lung Cancer.
  2 days ago

• The health insurance industry and the tobacco lobby

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  Samuel Metz in the Oregonian : Smoking kills. So does the health insurance industry. In the 20th century our tobacco industry, threatened by associations between its product and a lung cancer epidemic, diverted public discussion to a multitude of highly charged and largely irrelevant issues. It succeeded so well ...
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• Mount Sinai Medical Center Assessing Mesothelioma Impact in Libby, Montana

  
  Peoples-Blog: Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer — Authority: 141
  Researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine have announced that thousands of residents and workers in Libby, Montana are at risk for developing mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore for nearly a century.Libby is the site where W.R. Grace and Company operated a toxic ...
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• Former Employees Blow the Whistle on Illegal Asbestos Dump

  
  Asbestos.net News & Information — Authority: 128
  DENVER, C.O.—More than 20 years after the fact, several former employees of Denver Water, the city’s main provider of drinking water, are coming forward with information that has the potential to seriously harm the reputation of the environmentally-friendly company.Joseph Pacheco, one of the former workers, told a ...
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• Now, a Royal Mint medal to commemorate Sir Bobby Robson

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 5(ANI): In recognition of his services to English football, the Royal Mint in the UK will issue a special medal in the name of former football manager Sir Bobby Robson. The Royal Mint said the honour is normally reserved for members of the Royal Family, but has been extended to Sir Bobby, who [...]
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• Two Shot in Chinatown as Tong War Erupts

  
  Times Traveler — Authority: 470
  Two members of a Chinese secret society, or tong, shot two members of another tong in New York Citys Chinatown last night, mortally wounding one and crippling the other.
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• Woman needs financial help with her life-saving lung transplant

  
  Merv Sheppard's Transplant Network — Authority: 125
  Knowing the financial burden of out-of-pocket expenses associated with a lung transplant, in addition to any insurance coverage provided, one of my mandates is to help others in need and Im pleased to post the plight of Holly Julian here. Her approach to seeking help is unique and I hope its successful. The following ...
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• Bypass Surgery Safer Using Heart-Lung Pump: Study

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 159
  Allowing the heart to keep beating during coronary bypass surgery is riskier than stopping the heart and using a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive, researchers reported on Wednesday.source [...]
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