Posted on 04/09/2010 3:08:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Airway PI3K Pathway Activation Is an Early and Reversible Event in Lung Cancer Development
awesome
Lung Cancer usually is not discovered until it is way too late. And If it spreads to other organs, turn out the lights.. its over.
In my 47 year old cousin it spread to the brain. Her first symptoms were from the brain tumor and the lung cancer was diagnosed later.
It took 6 awful months.
yes. I lost a dear friend who had quit smoking many, many years ago, but still died at 51. Very sad. I am excited about this new development.
yes. I lost a dear friend who had quit smoking many, many years ago, but still died at 51. Very sad. I am excited about this new development.
“Cigarette smoking is responsible for 90% of all lung cancer cases in the United States.
Still, only 10 to 20% of smokers actually develop lung cancer, begging the question: Why do some smokers succumb to the disease and others don’t.”
This doesn’t make sense to me. 10-20% of smokers develop lung cancer, and apparently smoking isn’t related to 10% (100 minus 90), so how are they certain that smoking causes 90% of lung cancer. Not saying that they are wrong, it just seems... off.
So 80 to 90% of people who get lung cancer do NOT smoke.
Those stats say time to look for a different cause.
The scientific profession has made themselves "cigarette dependent" for their work...It's the first question the doctor asks...and it infuriates me...It creates a STRONG bias in examination.
I’ve known people who died from lung cancer who never smoked. They were probably in that 10% that this article references. The question remains: were they exposed to 2nd hand smoke? Poor air quality in their communities? What?
Before rules were enforced to curtail workplace smoking, I worked in some places that were just awful with smoke — a Boy Scout office was one. It was located in the basement of a church with poor ventilation. When you came inside it looked like you were stepping into a fog, the smoke was so thick from my 2 co-workers.
Another really bad environment was at a newspaper. The publisher was the worst — smoked like a chimney all the time. We’d all be working together to get the paper “to bed” and the smoke was dreadful.
My aunt succumbed to emphysema attributed to her husband’s continuous smoking.
Illogical. 10-20% of smokers getting lung cancer does not equate to 80-90% of the non-smoking population getting it.
Math is not your strong point, is it?
Four year lung cancer survivor here!
I have Asthma, emphysema and then got lung cancer on top of that. But Dr. Ross of Ohio State University Cancer Hospital used a new microscopic way of operating and took 14Th of my left lung where the cancer was.
The normal way was to cut you all the way from the back to the front. But Dr. Ross’s new procedure only left me a 3 inch scar on my side and a scar about the size of a quarter where the drainage tube was.
If not for God’s blessing me, the Ohio State University Cancer Hospital and Dr. Ross, I would have died back in 2006.
So far so good. Dr. Ross did tell me that the biopsy of the part of my lung that he removed showed 3 cancer cells right next to where he cut and that even one cancer cell on the other side, the side in me, could spread the cancer again. But after four years I think I’m safe.
It will be the Asthma or Emphysema that get’s my butt.
Not quite. What he’s saying is that 10% - 20% of SMOKERS develop lung cancer and this equates to 90% of all lung cancers.
It also implies that many different cancers, in the mouth, throat and windpipe, can also develop in association with smoking.
Will this test be allowed under Obamacare for the average older citizen?
So, we fix smoking problems, everyone smokes again and the government gets more tax revenue.
"Most men over 80 have had or currently have some form of prostate cancer."
I guess your chances of living over 80 are better if you have prostate cancer. The other group, 5 out of 6 men who don't get it don't fare as well. - Tom
Silly me, that’s supposed to read 1/4th of my left lung.
Good news.
Not sure I care for the idea of them calling inositol a “drug”, though.
What’s next? Will we need a prescription for that dangerous dextrose stuff?
Do you remember LadyInRed ? A FReeper that passed away a few years ago ?
I never got to know her that well. But it was so sad when we lost her. it is sad when we lose any FReeper
Ten to twenty percent of smokers get lung cancer. Let’s just make it simple and say ten percent.
So, 1/10 of smokers develop lung cancer, meaning that 9/10 do not. This strictly deals with the subset of smokers.
Now, on to the subset of lung cancer cases. Ten percent of lung cancer cases are in nonsmokers. Ninety percent of lung cancer cases are in smokers.
This tells us that smokers who develop lung cancer, with a frequency of one in ten, represent 90% of lung cancer cases. That tenth of the smaller subset of smokers who develop the disease represent nine tenths of the larger subset, of people who develop the disease.
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