Why is everyone so hung up on the term “cure?” You can almost see them visibly cringe whenever the word cure is even mentioned. What’s the deal? If you can locate a substance, that when applied to treat your lung cancer, completely takes your lung cancer away, isn’t that a cure? Hasn’t your lung cancer [...]
Lung cancer is a disease that is very hard to cure with conventional medicine. About 80% of all cases of newly diagnosed lung cancer are the non-small cell type (NSCLC). A majority of these patients will have inoperable disease on the basis of distant metastases or locally advanced disease. For the remaining patients with early [...]
With advances in science and medical technology, doctors now have more tools at their disposal for detecting and diagnosing cancer of various types than ever before. While many have heard of MRIs, CAT scans, and x-rays, the PET Scan is a very useful tool, used to locate cancer tumors in the body, because the PET [...]
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The human genome project was started to map the human genome right until the nucleotide level and then identify all the human genes. The genome of human beings is the human genome. A Genome is a full set of chromosomes. Studying this genome can result in a lot of findings that can be applied to [...]
There are two main types of cancer non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Of the two, NSCLC is much more widespread representing 80% of cases. It begins when the cells of the lung start to expand and multiply rapidly and uncontrollably. Over time this can cause a malignant (cancerous) tumour [...]
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