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Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now - Terry Fox
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Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Let's Clear the Smoke
Every November as I stand alongside thousands of patients to observe Lung Cancer Awareness Month, it is tempting to dwell on the uphill battle facing our cancer community. The daunting hurdles include adequate public education of early screening, funding shortages, dedicated research, trials, and the ominous stigma that lung cancer is solely a smoker’s disease.
But focusing only on the challenges would be a huge disservice. The fact is, the war against lung cancer is lightyears ahead of what it was 13 years ago, when I received my own life-altering diagnosis.
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Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer With Immune Therapy
Odds of survival can greatly improve for people with the most common type of lung cancer if they are given a new drug that activates the immune system along with chemotherapy, a major new study has shown. The findings, medical experts say, should change the way doctors treat lung cancer: Patients with this form of the disease should receive immunotherapy as early as possible.
Research Yields Progress Against Lung Cancer
Newer approaches include immune-boosting drugs and treatments targeting genetic traits of tumors.
How to Fight Cancer (When Cancer Fights Back)
Understanding how the disease evolves is the key to stopping it.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Let's Clear the Smoke
Research over the last decade has catapulted us to within making lung cancer a manageable disease. That’s closer than ever. Most every doctor and researcher I speak with agrees, and they are starting to believe a cure may one day be possible.
Cancer Research UK
This section tells you about the different treatments available for cancer of the lung.
Lung Cancer Alliance
In this section, you can learn about the tests and procedures used to identify treatment options and investigate the possible treatment options by type of lung cancer. You might also be interested in exploring the sections on how age may be a factor in treatment recommendations and how cancer that has spread may be treated.
Keytruda
KEYTRUDA is not chemotherapy or radiation therapy—it is an immunotherapy and it works with your immune system to help fight cancer. KEYTRUDA can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in any area of your body and can affect the way they work.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Depending on the type and stage of the disease, lung cancer can be treated using surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of these treatments.
NICE
The NICE lung cancer clinical guideline covers the full range of care that should be available from the NHS to adults who have lung cancer, or whose doctors think they may have lung cancer. They include how the diagnosis should be made and the treatments that should be offered at different times.
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Today, men and women facing lung cancer have more treatment options than they did even a few years ago. These new treatments have significantly increased survival rates for people with lung cancer.
Siteman Cancer Center
The lung cancer team at the Siteman Cancer Center provides nationally recognized expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of lung and other chest cancers.
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