New Steps in Lung Cancer Treatment

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us New Steps in Lung Cancer Treatment Recent discoveries and advances in lung cancer treatment are incredibly exciting.  With these advances we are getting closer to that point when, hopefully, we will be able to treat lung cancer as a chronic disease, such as diabetes.  At the same time, it's more important than ever to take an active and empowered role in your health care.  Your life may depend on it. Best wishes until next week, Dr. Lynne Lynne Eldridge MD Lung Cancer Expert Genetic Testing for People with Lung Cancer It's recommended that everyone with lung adenocarcinoma have gene testing to see if they have an EGFR mutation, an ALK rearrangment, or a ROS1 mutation for starters, in order to find out if the newer targeted therapies might be an option.  Unfortunately, there are still many people who qualify for testing (and may respond to these treatments) who have never been tested.  Read more READ NOW Share The Wise Patient's Guide to Being an Empowered Patient  What does it mean to take an active role in your cancer care and to be an empowered patient?  Check out these tips.  Read more READ NOW Share How to Find Clinical Trials for Lung Cancer  At the LUNGevity HOPE Summit in Washington DC earlier this month, I was amazed at the number of people with stage 4 lung cancer who were not only surviving, but thriving, years and some even decades, after their diagnosis.  Many of these people have been taking part in clinical trials.  This article discusses ways to look into clinical trials, with a link to a free matching service offered by several lung cancer organizations working together.  Read more READ NOW Share Importance of a Second Opinion with Lung Cancer  You may be familiar with one of the reasons people with lung cancer wish for a second opinion -- to make sure you're getting the best possible treatment.  Yet there are a few other good reasons you may not have thought about.  Read more READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • 5 Things Everyone Should Know About Nutrition • Improve Handgrip Strength with this Simple Exercise • Ideas for Stocking an Emergency Food Pantry • 7 Mind Games and Strategies for Long Runs and Races • Does shaving or waxing "down there" affect STD risk? Maybe • Hate Bad Advice About Fibromyalgia & ME/CFS? Heres How to Handle It! • Your Fibromyalgia Questions Answered! • 6 Tips for Running a Faster Race Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Lung Cancer newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved