Lung Cancer Clinical Trials

Posts Tagged ‘Brain Cancer’

I'm wondering what would be the most accurate, cheapest test to rule out brain cancer. The three I know of are PET,CAT, and MRI. With MRI being the most expensive I believe. Would a contrast agent be necessary to show possible tumors. 3 yrs ago I was feeling great until one night a lymph node in my neck swelled up pretty big. I had a lot of bloodwork and fecal occult and urinalysis done at a county health clinic. I've had an EKG,echocardiogram,lung xrays and a CAT of my neck with contrast. The CAT discovered "several slightly inlarged lymph nodes" and the lung x-ray found small peripheral blebs on my right lung apex (I read up on this and understand it pretty well). My symptoms could indicate tumor. I get very lightheaded, weak, confused (can't find simple words in my head), and I get blurry vision slightly. Also my eyes have been horribly bloodshot this whole time. Marijuana intensified the feelings, so I quit almost 3 yrs ago. I'm 30, tall and skinny, and smoke for 16 yrs. WorriedMother, I truly feel for you and wish your mom the best. Hi Marya, thank you for putting my brain at rest a bit. ... [more..]

Kent Pankow lives in Edmonton, in a province and a country that is trying to either kill him or bankrupt him. No sense mincing words. Suffering from brain cancer, Kent Pankow was literally forced to go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for lifesaving surgery — at a cost to family and friends of $106,000 — after the health-care system in Alberta left him hanging in bureaucratic limbo for 16 crucial days, his tumour meanwhile migrating to an unreachable part of the brain, while it dithered over his case file, ultimately deciding he was not surgery worthy. Now, with the Mayo Clinic having done what the Alberta Cancer Board wouldn’t authorize or even explain, but with the tumour unable to be totally removed, the province will now not fund the expensive drug, Avastin, that the Mayo prescribed to keep him alive and keep the remaining tumour from increasing in size — despite the costs of the drug being totally funded by the province for other forms of cancer. Kent Pankow, as it turns out, has the right disease but he has it in the wrong place. Had he lung cancer, breast cancer, or colon cancer, then the cost of ... [more..]

Not all cancers of lung will spread. But if the cancer does spread there are certain areas of the body that it is more possible to go to. The most common areas for lung cancer to spread to are the lymph nodes, the liver, the bones, and the brain. Seeing as the cancer tends to spread or metastasize very early after it forms, it is a very serious cancer and one of the most complicated cancers to treat.Symptoms of metastatic lung tumors rely on the location and size. Approximately 30%-40% of people with cancer of lung have a number of symptoms or signs of metastatic disease. Metastatic lung cancer in the liver typically does not cause symptoms, minimally by the time of diagnosis.Cancer of lung can spread locally. It might grow into an airway, or into the chest wall or lining of the lung. Specialists consider it as advanced if you have fluid collecting around the lung and the fluid has cancer cells. This situation is named a pleural effusion.Advanced (or metastatic) lung cancer indicates the cancer has spread from where it begun in the lung. Your cancer might be advanced when it is first diagnosed. Or it may return ... [more..]