In December, 2019, one of Erin Mielke’s five children came down with flu-like symptoms. It wasn’t long before 37-year-old Erin felt under the weather as well. Both she and her daughter tested negative for the flu and were told
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What is squamous cell carcinoma lung cancer? Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, also known as epidermoid carcinoma, is a cancer that originates from the squamous cells. These are thin, flat cells that line the airways, much like the
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What is Large Cell Lung Cancer? There are two main types of lung cancer: small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. Non-small cell lung cancer is further divided into three types: Adenocarcinoma, in which the cancer begins
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More than ever, there are more cancer treatments than just chemo. The current treatments for lung cancer are: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, targeted treatments immunotherapy, and combination therapy. Working with your thoracic oncologist, a personalized approach can be created based
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Sometimes the best treatment for a specific person’s lung cancer ends up to be surgery. For Mo, that was a Wedge Resection surgery. With all thanks to an annual Shenanigans Shuttle - a party bus celebrating both St. Patrick’s
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How An Experimental MET Inhibitor Saved Laura Greco’s Life A freak car accident – one that, by all rights, should have killed her – might have saved Laura Greco’s life. While driving home with her then six-year-old son from
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Inconclusive Lung Cancer Test Results For Sandy Spears, the road to a lung cancer diagnosis was head-spinning: simultaneously moving at warp speed and in slow motion. In November, Sandy was so short of breath she was unable to speak.
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Shelly’s diagnosis It was near the end of the school year when 40-year-old music teacher Shelly Engfer-Triebenbach found the short walk from her classroom to the school office left her exhausted and out of breath. Prompted by her colleague
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If you were to meet Juanita Segura today, it would be hard to tell that she is living with lung cancer. Four years since her diagnosis, the 47-year-old trainer and mother has abounding energy, a deep sense of spirituality,
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Funding supports search for new treatments for the deadliest form of cancer LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – Groundbreaking research into the early diagnosis of lung cancer and potential new treatments have been awarded funding through two lung…