Word: lungfuls
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DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage...
...research. That promise was underscored by several papers presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) last week, including one out of UCLA Medical School that showed that Celebrex, used in combination with newer cancer drugs, was successful in treating patients with late-stage lung cancer. In 9 out of 15 patients whose prior treatments had failed, the Celebrex cocktail either stopped the disease from progressing or shrank their tumors. In cancer circles, that is an impressive result...
There's another, more important part of the equation. The worst side effect of cancer that I can think of is being dead. The cure rate for all lung cancer patients is 14%; it's even lower for esophageal cancer. Hell, the treatment alone can kill you, given the toxicity of cancer drugs. "You tell me, what risk are these people willing to take?" asks Altorki. Only so much, it seems; about half of the surviving subjects in my study opted...
...people a drug that might not work and might increase their risk of heart attack? "It's going to make it very difficult to do long-term-treatment projects," says Keresztes. Dubinett's approach is to recruit ex-smokers, people who have already substantially increased their risk of both lung cancer and heart attack. Pick your poison...
Summer may be best for surgeries. Why? High levels of vitamin D (from food, supplements or sunshine) can improve recovery times. Summer lung-cancer patients had four times the survival rate of those with winter surgeries and low vitamin...