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...Widely metastatic pulmonary adenocarcinoma means lung cancer that is practically everywhere in the body. It's even scary to write the words, since they are invariably written about people who are grey, emaciated and so weak they can't even walk. Their bones break, they slowly suffocate. It's the real reason why doctors are scared of cigarettes. And it's what they wrote about a friend of mine named Charlie...
...Charlie's logic went something like this: "I'd rather you kill me than this cancer and you might learn something in the process - so bring it on, Doc". He was a very strong, young man and figured he could take a lot more chemo, a lot more surgery and a lot more radiation than most patients. It wasn't that he had the "we're going to beat this thing, Ruff" attitude. He expected death, pretty soon, but he wanted to be the victim of medical target practice, not what the ancients called the crab...
...tempted to draw some hope from Charlie's case be warned - in my experience, it hasn't happened since. That said, it really did happen once, and though recent news sadly proclaims that young, healthy people continue to succumb to lung cancer, progress against the disease, using the drugs Charlie got, has been impressive...
...science to focus not on only on economic issues but on health issues as well.” He said that workers at Irish pubs, many of whom have no health insurance, are at increased risk for respiratory problems and lung cancer. K. Michael Cummings, chair of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, also contributed to the study. “I anticipate that this study will be added to the toolbox of public health advocates.” Cummings said...
...several prescription drugs that have been proved to work. For more information, talk to your doctor. And be sure to have a colonoscopy by age 50?or 45 if you are of African descent. (You may need one even earlier if you have a family history of colorectal cancer.) It's a lot to keep track of, but nobody ever said prevention was easy...