Posted on 03/07/2006 5:26:51 AM PST by JRochelle
Elect John Edwards and he will make sure lung cancer people can smoke again.
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I was wondering when someone was going to say it... :)
For those who don't remember this, Edwards said:
"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again," Edwards said.
There was a hilarious picture on Rush w/ this.
>>>Cancer is scary. And to make it worse, now they're finding out that some forms are CONTAGIOUS! :-O >>>
>What????
Google "virus cancer". Breast, prostate, cervical cancers and many others are being linked to viruses.
I have no kudos for her belief that harvesting stem cells from human embryos is permissible. She and her late husband felt there was no price too great to pay if it would help him recover. I disagree. If I require the cells from a child to cure me of anything, bury me on a sunny day.
I do admire the way she tirelessly took care of Christopher.
Warren Zevon died of lung cancer. Although he smoked, wasn't his caused by something else?
(Since 2002-02-27)
You haven't been here long enough to make deliberately flamebaiting posts, troll.
The death of a spouse especially when involving long term hospitalization can result in an increase of the risk of death in the surving spouse for up to two years. There is an emotional burden and our emotions effect our immune system and other body systems also many times a person who is so focused on the well being of their spouse will set aside care for themselves. This is sad but hopefully it is not so in another place where Chris Reeve stands tall. I pray their son Will(13) has the strength to deal with this.
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2006/nia-15a.htm
Just the tons of asbestos worn out of brake shoes/pads over the years, not to mention hammered out of buildings might have a wee effect. Other chemicals and toxins abound in an area where humans have lived in large numbers for decades or even centuries.
Of course, it is far easier to blame having seen someone smoke a cigarette, or having smelled on once, than do some decent medical research into real occupational or other hazards. That would require historical, engineering, chemical and other research, and extensive knowledge of those icky dirty "blue collar" things most exhalted physicians would never consider messing with, and in an historical contest to boot. The horror.
When I go, if of lung cancer, the cigs will probably get the blame. Not the creosote fumes from building seawalls, not the granodiorite dust from drilling shot holes in the Blue Ridge, nor the welding smoke from working in a steel fabrication plant. Not the fumes from oil-based drilling mud or crude oil, the years of grey skies in summer while the Clintons burned off hundreds of thousands of acres of National Forest (yes, the smoke made it here, and quite noticeably), not the dust of the farm fields carrying the residuals from nuclear tests in the 50's or pesticides or herbicides.
Nope, gotta be the smokes.
Besides cigarettes are obvious, cigarettes are "stinky", and they come in bright colored easy to blame packages. They are even put out by one of the eeeevil "Big"s......yadda, yadda, yadda....
I think you're a troll.
Troll, democrat, liberal, stupid, same thing.
You are right. Don't forget Linda McCartney died of breast cancer, and she was a clean living, thin vegetarian. But that doesn't stop groups from claiming that it's caused by hormones in meat.The fact is we don't always know what causes some people to develop cancers. Cancer arises in all organs of the body. Why in the case of lung cancer does it HAVE to be because of tobacco?
Sarasota, perhaps this will help you to understand "staging" a little better:
Cancer Staging
Cancer staging systems describe how far cancer has spread anatomically and attempt to put patients with similar prognosis and treatment in the same staging group. Since prognosis and treatment depend quite a bit on the stage, you can see how important it is to know what stage you have! At the same time other factors, including your general health, your own preference, and the results of biochemical tests on your cancer cells will contribute to determining the prognosis and treatment. So while the stage is important it is not everything.
The concept of stage is applicable to almost all cancers except for most forms of leukemia. Since leukemias involve all of the blood, they are not anatomically localized like other cancers, so the concept of staging doesn't make as much sense for them. A few forms of leukemia do have staging systems which reflect various measures of how advanced the disease is. For most solid tumors, there are two related cancer staging systems, the Overall Stage Grouping, and the TNM system.
Overall Stage Groupings (Roman Numeral Staging)
In this system, cases are grouped into four stages denoted by Roman numerals I through IV, or are classified as "recurrent." In general, stage I cancers are small localized cancers that are usually curable, while stage IV usually represents inoperable or metastatic cancer. Stage II and III cancers are usually locally advanced and/or with involvement of local lymph nodes. Actually, these stages are defined precisely, but the definition is different for each kind of cancer. In addition, it is important to realize that the prognosis for a given stage also depends on what kind of cancer it is, so that a stage II non small cell lung cancer has a different prognosis from a stage II cervical cancer.
Unfortunately, it is common for cancer to return months or years after the primary tumor has been removed because cancer cells had already broken away and lodged in distant locations by the time the primary tumor was discovered, but had not formed tumors which were large enough to detect at that time. Sometimes a tiny bit of the primary tumor was left behind in the initial surgery and this later grows into a macroscopic tumor. Cancer that recurs after all visible tumor has been eradicated, is called recurrent disease. Disease that recurs in the area of the primary tumor is locally recurrent, and disease that recurs as metastases is referred to as a distant recurrence. Distant recurrence is usually treated similarly to stage IV disease (sometimes the terms are used interchangeably) and anyone in this situation should investigate options for both stage IV and recurrent disease. The significance of a Local recurrence may be quite different than distant recurrence, depending on the type of cancer.
Her advocacy for stem cell reseach in any event, but particularly when adult stem sells have proven to be so much more successful than fetal stem cells was NOT a good thing and in fact was most selfish of her and her husband.
Do they have any Children, the poor kids.
dude, get a clue
All lies, Mia, all lies. But keep spewing them.
I'm glad you brought this up about parents smoking around their kids. I'm sure there arre millions of kids, like myself who were raised by parents who smoked all the time. We also went to school where the teachers smoked in the building. How come then is childhood lung cancer virtually unheard of? We should have been dropping like flies. This alone convinces me that SHS is a BS excuse.
That Doctor that appears on Fox News a.m. on the weekends says thay he uses MRI's to check the lungs because lung cander doesn't so up until too late on normal x-rays.
He said if caught early lives can be sved. I found that intereting.
Jees, I am not a researcher but it seems it has a lot to do with luck. Perhaps it is as simple as breathing in a toxin on a bad day, when the immunity is a little low and for whatever reason a cell goes a little awry...and the foundation begins.
Women who have never smoked, getting lung cancer is not THAT rare. My ex-mother-in-law, whom I cared for very much, succumbed to the disease last year. She had never smoked in her life. She was diagnosed and died within 3 months.
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