Focus on lung cancer

JD Minna, JA Roth, AF Gazdar - Cancer cell, 2002 - cell.com
… However, this decreased risk never reaches baseline levels, and lung cancer in the USA is
… % of lung cancer patients will die from their disease. In 2000, it is estimated that lung cancer

Quality of life of patients with lung cancer

J Polanski, B Jankowska-Polanska… - OncoTargets and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… The QoL in lung cancer patients is lower than in healthy population and patients suffering …
blood in sputum, which are specific for lung tumors. Fatigue and respiratory problems reduce …

Lung cancer in patients under age 40

AT Skarin, RS Herbst, TL Leong, A Bailey… - Lung cancer, 2001 - Elsevier
… of patients under age 40 with a diagnosis of lung cancer seen at the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute (… All patients had histologically confirmed lung cancer reviewed by the Department of …

Quality of life in lung cancer patients: as an important prognostic factor

A Montazeri, R Milroy, D Hole, J McEwen, CR Gillis - Lung cancer, 2001 - Elsevier
… of lung cancer in greater Glasgow where we had access to potential cases of lung cancer
This paper presents data from a prospective study of quality of life in lung cancer patients

Lung cancer: perspectives and prospects

PP CARBONE, JK Frost, AR FEINSTEIN… - Annals of internal …, 1970 - acpjournals.org
… In summary, the ultimate goal for eventual control of lung cancer is prevention. Such …
patients with lung cancer had a 6-month survival rate of 42%. This rate was 73% for the patients

Small-cell lung cancer

JP Van Meerbeeck, DA Fennell, DKM De Ruysscher - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
… SCLC represents 13% of all newly diagnosed cases of lung cancer worldwide, or more
than 180 000 cases per year. More than 90% of patients with SCLC are elderly current or past …

Lung cancer in the elderly

C Gridelli, C Langer, P Maione, A Rossi… - Journal of clinical …, 2007 - ascopubs.org
… of nonselected elderly patients with lung cancer. Elderly … patients with lung cancer. Relevant
prospective data are available only for advanced NSCLC. Elderly patients with lung cancer

Second lung cancers in patients after treatment for an initial lung cancer

BE Johnson - JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1998 - academic.oup.com
patients surviving small-cell lung cancer for more than 2 years. In that review, we reported
that the risk of developing a second lung cancer was 2%-14% per patient … of the second lung

Age and the treatment of lung cancer.

JS Brown, D Eraut, C Trask, AG Davison - Thorax, 1996 - thorax.bmj.com
… of the number of patients with lung cancer in our oldest age group and a reduction of the age
effect on treatment. We found 43% of patients with lung cancer were aged 75 years or over, …

Lung cancer: a review

RJ Cersosimo - American journal of health-system pharmacy, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… The TNM system is primarily used for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.Patients
with small-cell lung cancer are commonly staged with the Veterans Affairs lung cancer