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unusual facts about lung cancer



1999–2000 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season

Blackburn Rovers F.C. spent their first season in the second flight for almost a decade in a season curtailed by the death of owner Jack Walker from lung cancer.

Ancient Greek medicine

He is given credit for the first purple description of clubbing of the fingers, an important diagnostic sign in chronic suppurative lung disease, lung cancer and cyanotic heart disease.

Bone tumor

Carcinomas of the prostate, breasts, lungs, thyroid, and kidneys are the carcinomas that most commonly metastasize to bone.

Bruno Lawrence

In 1995 during the filming of Australian feature Così, which was scheduled to be his next role, Lawrence was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.

Hugo Young

His first wife, Helen Mason, with whom he had three daughters, including the film director Emily Young, and one son, died in 1989 of lung cancer.

Irving Kristol

Kristol died aged 89 on September 18, 2009 at the Capital Hospice in Falls Church, Virginia from complications of lung cancer.

John Louis Mansi

After 'Allo 'Allo! ended in 1992, he retired from acting. He was often credited as Louis Mansi in his roles. For six years he suffered from Parkinson's disease and in May 2010 was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.

Noite Ilustrada

In 1994, moved to Atibaia, São Paulo, where he lived til his death in 2003, from lung cancer.

Paddy Mitchell

Mitchell was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2006 and died in the Federal Medical Centre in Butner, N.C. in the prison hospital at age 64.

Purdue Research Park

:Endocyte, a pharmaceutical company, is developing EC145 (Vintafolide), a candidate drug for use in chemotherapy-resistant patients with non-small-cell lung cancer.

Sylvia Likens

Gertrude Baniszewski changed her name to Nadine van Fossan, her middle and maiden names, and moved to Laurel, Iowa, where she died of lung cancer on June 16, 1990.

Tobacco control

However, the work of Richard Doll in the UK, who again identified the causal link between smoking and lung cancer in 1952, brought this topic back to attention.


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Cirencester House

The tonne of clippings produced by its annual trimming are sold to pharmaceutical companies who use extracts as a key ingredient of Docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug used to treat breast, ovarian and lung cancer.

Corinna Tsopei

Tsopei was married to Hollywood Super Agent Freddie Fields, brother of band leader Shep Fields, from 1981 until his death from lung cancer in December 2007.

Dick Burrus

Burrus died of lung cancer in 1972, leaving behind his widow and four children, including daughters Dixie and Mary, and nine grandchildren.

EML4-ALK positive lung cancer

EML4-ALK positive lung cancer is a medical term that refers to a primary malignant lung tumor whose cells contain a characteristic abnormal configuration of DNA wherein the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4) gene is fused to the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene.

Haydain Neale

On the morning of November 22, 2009, aged 39, Haydain Neale died of lung cancer at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

Julius Wechter

He died at his home in California of lung cancer, a day after his song "Spanish Flea" was used in the Simpsons episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday".

Lung cancer screening

Clinical practice guidelines previously issued by the American College of Chest Physicians in 2007 recommended against routine screening for lung cancer because of a lack of evidence that such screening was effective.

Lung cancer vaccine

CimaVax-EGF, the first therapeutic cancer vaccine developed to target lung cancer.

Stimuvax, which had promising results from a phase IIB trial for inoperable lung cancer.

Manfred Korfmann

Manfred Korfmann died of lung cancer on August 11, 2005 at the age of 63 in his home in Ofterdingen near Tübingen.

Mesothelin

Jack Andraka, an American teenage prodigy, claimed to have developed a cheap and quick test for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer based on detecting mesothelin using nanotechnology.

Missing in America

Henry is dying of lung cancer caused by the exposure to Agent Orange, and entrusts the care of his half-Vietnamese daughter Lenny to Jake.

Operation Pacific

Nearly fourteen years later, however, they worked together on In Harm's Way (1965) where she noted that he had mellowed a lot, possibly because he was seriously ill with lung cancer at the time.

Peter Orlovsky

In May 2010, friends reported that Orlovsky, who had had lung cancer for several months, was moved from his home in St. Johnsbury, Vermont to the Vermont Respite House in Williston.

Regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

In 1964, Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a report on smoking and health saying that tobacco causes lung cancer and is a main contributor to bronchitis.

Sophie Cohen

During a Passover Seder visit, the family's negative views about her change as she informs them that she has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Troy Ruttman

Ruttman died of lung cancer in 1997 at Lake Havasu City, Arizona just a month before the long planned "Troy Ruttman Day" in his hometown of Mooreland, Oklahoma.

Video game controversies

A 2003 study by Dr. Craig A. Anderson et al. compared the effects of violent video games on youth violence to those of smoking on lung cancer.