Do Statins Affect Lung Cancer Survival?

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 Do Statins Affect Lung Cancer Survival?  It's an exciting time for lung cancer.  The number of new treatments recently approved for lung cancer and the number of promising clinical trials is unlike anything in the past.  Not only did the recent LUNGevity HOPE Summit leave me breathless as I thought of the number of lung cancer survivors present who just a few years back wouldn't have had the opportunity to be alive - but I felt a joy unlike anything before at a summit, thinking about people around me who I'd probably see again - because of clinical trials making a difference today.  Clinical trials that in some cases are simply finding ways of reminding our own immune systems to do what they had once done so well - fight off cancer cells. Best wishes until next week, Dr. Lynne Lynne Eldridge MD Lung Cancer Expert Making the Most of Your Oncology Visits  Check out these 5 tips to make sure you get the most out of your oncology appointments.  Read more READ NOW Share ALK Positive (and now ROS1 Positive) Lung Cancer  If you have lung adenocarcinoma, or if you have any type of lung cancer and never smoked, it's critical to have gene testing (molecular profiling) of your tumor.  In addition to people with EGFR mutations, targeted therapies have been approved for people with ALK rearrangments, and now with ROS1 mutations - treatments that often have fewer side effects - and often better results - than traditional treatments.  Read more READ NOW Share Do Statins Raise Lung Cancer Survival or Treatment?  We've been hearing a lot about statins with regard to other forms of cancer such as breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.  But what do studies say about statins and lung cancer survival?  Looking at statins from a different angle, check out this recent study on statins in people with KRAS mutations.   Of course this information comes at a time when we are hearing that dietary cholesterol isn't the problem we once thought...  Read more READ NOW Share Free Things for People with Lung Cancer  Back by popular demand.  I'm sure you've heard about all the pink things that are free for people with breast cancer. Well, people with lung cancer aren't alone!  From free housecleaning to free scarves to free retreats, there is something for almost anyone.  Read more READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Get Better Posture with Lumo Lift • 10 Signs You Might Have a Sleep Disorder • Why Use an E-Reader? Lots of Benefits for Fibromyalgia & ME/CFS! • How to Make Low-Calorie Boneless Buffalo Wings • 10 Healthy Snacks for Runners • 10 things to tell your doctor when you go for your annual physical • The Workout that Works Out Your Whole Upper Body • 7 Simple Steps to Improve Your Posture 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