Lung Cancer Treatment and Symptoms entities
Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. Most commonly it is bronchogenic carcinoma (about 90%). Lung cancer is one of the most lethal of cancers worldwide, causing up to 3 million deaths annually. Only one in ten patients diagnosed with this disease will survive the next five years. Although lung cancer was previously an illness that affected predominately men, the lung cancer rate for women has been increasing in the last few decades, which ...
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Lung Cancer Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- Food and Drug Administration
- American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org/
- National Institute on Aging http://www.nia.nih.gov/
- Radiological Society of North America http://www.rsna.org/
- Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
- Alliance for Lung Cancer
- Cancer Care, Inc., Oncology Nursing Society
- American Institute for Cancer Research http://www.aicr.org/
- National Women's Health Information Center, OWH, HHS http://www.4woman.gov/
- Job Accommodation Network http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, OPHS, HHS http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
- National Library of Medicine, NIH, HHS http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- Office of Women's Health, OEA, FDA, HHS http://www.fda.gov/womens/default.htm
- Cancer Care, Inc. http://www.cancercare.org/
- National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- American Legacy Foundation http://www.americanlegacy.org/
- University of California, Los Angeles http://www.ucla.edu/
- Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum http://www.apiahf.org/
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- Google Health https://www.google.com/health
Resources
- Adding Chemotherapy to Radiation After Surgery Adds No Benefit in Lung Cancer (National Cancer Institute)
- Age Shouldn't Prevent Treatment for Lung Cancer (American Cancer Society)