Friday, March 8, 2013

how can dettect when you have lung cancer

how can dettect when you have lung cancer ?
you could detect lung cancer by just looking at some one smoke for a very long time or maybe just maybe by the look on their faces if the look exhausted or other faces that look weird to you you could right away tell if they have lung cancer .
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Try feeling around for any abnormal lumps in or around the lung area. You should really perform a monthly lung checkup, and see a doctor if you feel anything new.
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when you smoke like a redneck
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There is not doubt that smoking is one of the worst habits on the planet if not the worst. There are many numbers and other alternatives that you could try to stop. On my website I have a blog that is talking about what a lot of countries are starting to do to try to cut down on the level of smokers http://shopdesignerclothing.com/Blog.html

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Monday, March 4, 2013

What are the causes of lung cancer in dogs

What are the causes of lung cancer in dogs?
I found out today that my 8 year old mini poodle has lung cancer. The vet gave him about a month. It's absolutely devastating. But what they didn't answer is how he got it. Are the causes for lung cancer the same in dogs as it is in humans? If so, how did he get it? Nobody in our house smokes, and he's never been exposed to harmful inhalants. I just want to know if there is anything we did to make him sick, because we have another dog and I do not want him to meet the same fate.
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Unfortunately the world we live in and subject our dogs to is often the cause and in other cases , there is no specific cause. You can read more about it from http://www.vetinfo.com/lung-cancer-dogs.html. I'm so very sorry for the news. I too, have lost several animals to various forms of cancer over the years.
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Same as with humans, there is no real reasons. We are all born with cancer genes and I feel animals are to. Sorry for your dog, I had a female who lost her life to cancer of the bones in her front legs. It was devastating to us.
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I'm so sorry to hear this. No, it was probably nothing you have done, some animals , just like people are predisposed to certain cancers, smoking doesn't cause cancer, it just aggravates cells that are already present in the lungs. Technically we all have cancer cells, whether or not they turn into malignant cancer is dependent on many things, lifestyle is only one. It very well could have simply just been your poodle's genetics. Don't blame yourself, there is nothing you have done to make your puppy sick. I would not be concerned that your other dog will get lung cancer as well.
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Our dogs are open to all the environmental and product chemicals the same as we are.... kibble is not the best thing to feed dogs despite what commercials on TV tell us....and many now feed Raw and Bone so they don't feed rubbish to their dogs,such things as 'carbon' in kibble is burnt material to give the colour...that alone is proved as cancerous........ we as a society vaccinate, spray chemicals on pets and give them chemical wormers...............however you can only do your best, learn as you go along and it certainly won't help blaming yourself........sorry about your poodle, he is very young
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Do you have a wood stove ??? all dogs have cancer like humans but it is just impossible to tell who will be effected by it I'm sorry I have a dachshund that is loaded with Cancer too she has it in her glans Again I'm sorry :(

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Friday, March 1, 2013

What is the approximate survival rate of the stage IV lung cancer

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. But I would really want to know what is her real chance of surviving from the lung cancer. Thank you very much.
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Your relative is at a very advanced stage.....Although every sufferer is different it is my experience that at this stage it could be anything from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, unfortunately lung cancer is a very rapid and aggressive cancer and is not often detectable untill its later stages...hence why the survival rate/expectancy is quite low.... i send good wishes to you and your relative xx
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Your friend has a secondary cancer or mets to the lung which means that the kidney cells have metastasized. This is not the same disease as lung cancer, nor does it behave in the same way. Gefitinib is one of a whole family of new targeted therapy drugs that is approved for lung cancer but can be used off trial for other cancers as well. Gefitinib is a Tyrosine kinase inhibitor . . other drugs in this family include Dasatinib, Erlotinib, Imatinib, Lapatinib, Nilotinib, Sorafenib, and Sunitinib. All these drugs, but Imatinib in particular has shown significant efficiacy in the treatment of Gastrointestinal stromal tumor and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. As for your friends chances for survival .. well . . if the Gefitinib is working for her than she should know by now. It takes about four to six weeks for a chemo to be tested to see if it works on a patient. Usually a patient will have a CT to check to see if the disease is stable, progressing or improving (tumors disappearing) . . her doctor may decide to keep her on the gefitinib as long as the tumors do not progress. So, your question is impossible to answer. She should be checking into the possiblity of surgery or radiofrequency ablation to handle mets under a certain size. However, the gefitinib, if it is working . . has very few side effects and a patient can tolerate it over a long period of time . . so, that may be her best option at this point. That is up to her to decide. People living with cancer http://www.plwc.org/
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Panda is right, kidney cancer that has spread to the lungs is not lung cancer it is still kidney cancer.My wife is stage IV kidney cancer and is on one of the targeted therapy Panda mentioned sunitinib (brand name Sutent). She is doing better on this, than any other therapy she has tried.I think targeted therapy is the best thing going for kidney cancer at this time.

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