Lung Cancer Clinical Trials

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My mother is considering treatment with Dr. Burzynski and as her support person I am trying to get her additional information to help her make decisions related to her colon cancer, which has traveled to her lungs, and now bones. As a widow on Medicare, she is trying to make sound health and financial decisions. Is this clinic worth it? ... [more..]

I have seen many doctors these last past 5 yrs but still have no answer to my problem. All started one morning after my shower, since then I can still not breath. I had X-rays, PFT, scan, genetic antitrypsin test, also EKG, echo cardiogram at rest and exercise...from the X rays my lungs are a bit big but according to the different pulmonary doctors (amoung which one is specialized in emphysema and lung cancer) I don't have emphysema, my PFT is excellent and shows that I use 120% of my lungs. I don't have athma neither pulmonary hypertention. I also went to Mayo clinic and they also didn't have any answers. I am very desperate and would do anything to breath again, I feel now so limited with my life, however my breathing improves greatly when I lay down. I also have been on anti-acid medication and claratin D for a couple of month with no improvement, also took cortisone. I hope someone there can help me, I don't have med inssurance and can't afford to pay doctors anymore.Thanks a lot ... [more..]

There are a various risk factors that are linked to lung cancer. The most common known causes are as follows:Cigarette SmokingCigarette smoking is probably the most closely related link to developing lung cancer. A person who smokes two packs or more of cigarettes per day has a one in seven chance of developing lung cancer. Those that smoke one pack of cigarettes per day have a twenty-five times greater chance of developing lung cancer than a non-smoker. In addition, those people that smoke a pipe or cigar have a five times greater chance of developing lung cancer than a non-smoker.The risk of developing lung cancer increases with the number of cigarettes smoked over your lifetime. Cigarette smoking damages the cells in your lungs. The moment you stop smoking, your lungs begin healing themselves, replacing damaged cells with healthy, normal cells. Your risk of developing lung cancer begins decreasing almost immediately when you quit smoking. Every year that you do not smoke, your chances of developing lung cancer drop further. By the fifteenth year, your chances of developing lung cancer are about the same as those of a person who has never smoked.Secondhand SmokeAlso known as passive smoking, people exposed to ... [more..]