Lung Cancer
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Big impact for lung cancer patients who butt out
Lung cancer patients who quit smoking lived an average of two more years after diagnosis.
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Never smoked? You can still get lung cancer
Many people diagnosed with lung cancer, like Kathy Griffin and Angela Bailey, are non-smokers.
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What it feels like: Living with lung cancer
People that know me go, “but you don’t smoke.”
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Non-smokers and lung cancer: Clues may be in mouth
With many people with no history of smoking getting the disease, researchers have turned to the microbiome.
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'I never smoked': Changing the lung cancer conversation
Dwight Daigneault was healthy, physically active and at the gym five days a week when he was diagnosed.
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Cancer
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U of A experts author high-protein cookbook for cancer patients
Carla Prado, one of the cookbook’s authors, studies the importance of muscle mass for cancer patients.
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SHIFT: Joining a clinical trial was the best decision I ever made
13 years ago I signed up for a clinical trial with only one hope: to survive.
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'Hope, optimism, a better quality of life': Clinical trials save lives while moving science forward. ...
Clinical trials help bring innovative treatments to those who need it most, saving lives, and giving people a chance to play a role in advancing medicine.
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Spike in esophageal cancer has researchers calling for more endoscopies
Researchers found that the rate of cancer rate among patients between the ages of 45 and 64 has risen from 49 per 100,000 to 94 per 100,000.
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‘Cure is not enough’: Young cancer survivors face a shorter lifespan
Researchers have found that adolescents and young adult survivors of cancer experience side effects and lack of access to quality health care that impacts overall survival.
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