Lung Cancer Manual Arms Patients with Vital Information About Their...

PR Newswire;  November 12, 1998 ;     693 words ......PRNewswire/ -- For the first time, people with lung cancer will have a comprehensive manual to guide...most critical period of their lives. The Lung Cancer Manual, developed by the Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support and Education (ALCASE...

Allegheny General helps prevent, detect and treat lung cancer

New Pittsburgh Courier;  December 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Allegheny General helps prevent, detect and treat lung cancer More than 170,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lung cancer each year. For African-Americans, lung cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed each year...

Diet may help protect nonsmokers (even smokers) against lung cancer.

Environmental Nutrition;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lung cancer is becoming more pervasive, striking...prostate cancers, which strike more people, lung cancer is particularly lethal; it's the leading...accounts for only 13% of cancer diagnoses, lung cancer is responsible for almost a third of...

The deadliest cancer women face now: what you must know--whether you smoke...

Redbook;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...you have lung cancer. Oncologist Harvey Pass, M.D., always...this was happening to her. Fact is, lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian...shock--to her and to you? Because lung cancer has long been brushed aside as the...

Specialists warn that inadequate funding treats lung cancer as 'the poor...

PR Newswire;  August 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Columbia, August 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Lung cancer specialists from around the world are warning that lung cancer receives less funding than other common...carried out at the 10th World Congress on Lung Cancer (10-14 August, Vancouver, Canada...

Growing Evidence of Sex-Based Differences in Lung Cancer Highlighted at...

PR Newswire;  February 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Advocacy Groups Unite To Make Lung Cancer in Women a Top Educational and Research...6 /PRNewswire/ -- Women's health and lung cancer advocacy groups, led by the Society...Health Research, vowed today to make lung cancer education and advocacy, especially among...

Lung-cancer fight an uphill battle for women

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  November 14, 2003 ;     526 words ...WASHINGTON -- It is lung cancer, not breast cancer, that kills the most American women, lung cancer advocacy groups noted at a congressional briefing on Thursday. But during November, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, there will be few marches...

Screening, Treating, & Surviving Lung Cancer

Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  August 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Tennessee TRIBUNE, The 08-25-2005 Who Gets Lung Cancer, and How to Handle It: Q&A By Miranda...News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD Lung cancer has entered the headlines with the recent...by Christopher Reeve's widow, Dana. Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths...

Lung Cancer Alliance Commends Research on Non-Smoking Lung Cancer Cases

U.S. Newswire;  March 5, 2007 ;     406 words ......EDITORS Contact: Kay Cofrancesco of Lung Cancer Alliance, +1-202-744- 1541, kcofrancesco...5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) commended the work of...non-smokers who are being diagnosed with lung cancer. According to the report, which followed...

Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers Is Sixth Biggest Cancer Killer.

PR Newswire;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- While lung cancer in smokers and former smokers is the biggest cancer killer by far, lung cancer in people who have never smoked...Most people are not aware that lung cancer among non-smokers has such an enormous...

Lung Cancer Alliance Maintains Strong Support for Early Detection for Lung...

U.S. Newswire;  March 6, 2007 ;     599 words ......EDITORS Contact: Kay Cofrancesco of Lung Cancer Alliance, Office: +1-202- 463-2080...6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance President, Laurie Fenton, responded...tactic to deny people at high risk for lung cancer the chance to have it detected at an...

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: Lung cancer screening gets an edge

New Haven Register;  October 30, 2006 ;     551 words ...Results of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program, recently published...that CT imaging to screen for lung cancer may save lives. Nearly 32,000...40 and at increased risk of lung cancer due to tobacco or occupational...

National Survey Reveals Americans Lack Understanding About Lung Cancer...

PR Newswire;  March 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lung Cancer Alliance Calls for Funding for Early Testing...PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new national survey released by the Lung Cancer Alliance reveals that Americans are uninformed about options for lung cancer testing. Lung cancer is the number one cause...

Xillix Technologies Corp.: Lung Cancer Screening Legislation Introduced to...

CCNMatthews Newswire;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......LUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - June 1, 2006) - Early Lung Cancer Detection includes Fluorescence Bronchoscopy...bronchoscopy for the early detection of lung cancer, highlighted precedent-setting legislation...R-FL) that supports early detection of lung cancer and lung cancer ...

Xillix Technologies Corp.: Lung Cancer Screening Legislation Introduced to...

Canadian Corporate News;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......2006 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Early Lung Cancer Detection includes Fluorescence Bronchoscopy...bronchoscopy for the early detection of lung cancer, highlighted precedent-setting legislation...R-FL) that supports early detection of lung cancer and lung cancer ...