Lung Cancer Clinical Trials

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Why are a lot of women dying of lung cancer? Research puts forward that while women may smoke less cigarettes and inhale less of the cigarettes that they do smoke, women are 1.5 times more probable to suffer from cancer of the lung than men. Even though extra research is wanted, scientists consider the difference might be genetically linked.Numerous advancements have been made in the treatment of cancer and recovery rates have improved by and large. Unluckily, this is not true of lung cancer. The survival rate is principally unchanged over the last 40 years. When a patient is in the final stages of cancer of lung, the patient is probable to feel critical pain and medication is suggested to lessen the suffering.The symptoms of lung cancer could take several years to develop which frequently leads to diagnosis at an advanced stage of this disease. Some of the common symptoms that may come about include: smoker's cough that persists or becomes intense; persistent chest, shoulder, or back pain unrelated to pain from coughing; increase in volume of sputum; wheezing; nonsmoker's cough that persists for more than 2 weeks; change in color of sputum; blood in sputum; and repeated episodes of ... [more..]

I went to urgent care a couple of weeks ago for my back and chest pain- they gave me a x-ray- there was something on my left lung- the doctor( assumed) if was phneumonia- but i did not have a fever or cough at all. So they told me to go to my primary clinic and do another x-ray test. Then yesterday i went back to my primary clinic and got the results for my new x-ray test. The nurse told me that there was a "knot" spot at my left lung- she said not to worry and set me up for a ct scan at a hospital nearby. After reading many other articles about a dark spot on the lung- i believe i might have cancer? Does anyone know- please help me. I'm still young-only 24 yrs. Old- i don't wanna go yet- oh god, please help me non smoker-live in every safe environment ... [more..]