by NationalLungCancerPartnership

Question by Erica: What are the chances of survival from Lung Cancer?
My mother in law has just found out she has lung cancer and a tumor in her lung. She will be getting surgery to remove the tumor tomorrow. What are the chances of everything being okay? Will she have to take radiation or chemotherapy afterwards? I would like to get input from anyone that has gone thru this experience. She is very scared and was a smoker for 22 years. Any information is more than welcome. Read more...

Question by : What is the survival rate for breast cancer?
A friend of my mom’s died of breast cancer a few days ago. If that weren’t bad enough, ANOTHER friend of my mom’s, who is also the mother of a friend of mine, recently got diagnosed with breast cancer. And its so sad because its Christmas time. That poor family has been through so much… Read more...

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Question by elan_longterm_invest: What is the approximate survival rate of the stage IV lung cancer?
One of my very close relatives was diagnosed to have kidney cancer on September last year. She underwent a surgery, which reportedly went very well. However, she went back to re-check this summer and was detected that the cancer has spreaded over both of her lungs. Since this September, she has been taking a medication named Gefitinib, which is supposed to be the only effective drug against lung cancer as of today. Read more...

Peregrine Presents Promising Phase II Survival Data in Recurrent GBM With Single Treatment of Cotara at ASCO Annual …
8.8 Month Median Overall Survival Following Single Treatment With Cotara Brain Cancer Therapy Highlighted at Oral Posted Discussion
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Dr Sanjay Popat, a medical oncologist at the Marsden Foundation Trust and senior lecturer in medical oncology at Imperial College London, says that when lung cancer was seen as a single disease, one all-encompassing blunt instrument could be used …. As we have seen, even the most successful of NSCLC cancer drugs using this mechanism can only extend progression -free survival by an average of 3.3 months, meaning our man in the doctor’s office may see a full year of life, … Read more...

Mammography screening in women with a personal history of breast cancer detects second breast cancers at an early stage, but has lower accuracy, compared to screening in women without prior breast cancer, according to a study in the February 23 issue of JAMA. “The high prevalence of breast cancer survivors is due to general gains in life expectancy and to improved survival in women with a … Read more...

In this Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study, 356 patients were randomized to receive PCI or observation after loco-regional/systemic treatment. Researchers sought to determine if PCI improves survival or impacts brain … Read more...

Novartis International AG /Novartis drug Afinitor® extends progression -free survival in patients withadvanced pancreatic NET, study published in NEJM showsProcessed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters.The issuer is solely responsible for … Read more...

Companies to Launch ESA APPRISE Oncology Program on March 24, 2010 for Patients with Cancer. Horsham, PA (February 16, 2010) – Centocor Ortho Biotech Products, L.P Read more...