Good Day All,
I am not one to believe or seek statistics, but I personally have some
very good friends who are affected by this condition, lung cancer, and I
find the following information to be very positive. What is not said is,
that each day that goes by, conventional and alternative medical trials
and treatments become more progressive so that say in a year or so,
those statistics or results of life expectancies will be more pronounced
in a positive way. Hope you find the following information to be more of
a positive nature than negative.
Long-Term Lung Cancer Survival More Likely In Women Than In Men
WESTPORT, Dec 29 (Reuters Health) - Women are more than twice as
likely as men to live at least 10 years after having surgery for
lung cancer. Also, patients younger than age 50 years are 2.5
times more likely to survive this long than those age 60 years
and older, according to Dr. Christine Bouchardy, of the Geneva
Cancer Registry, in Switzerland, and colleagues. The
investigators assessed characteristics associated with lung
cancer survival in more than 400 men and women who underwent
"surgery presumed to be curative" for lung cancer from 1977 to
1987. Cure was defined as survival for 10 years or more after
surgery, since "...only a few patients died of their lung cancer
afterward," The researchers explain in the December 1st issue of
Cancer.
http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?st=7189&c=260825
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God Bless All,
marty auslander
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