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Plant Based Diets
Is a plant based diet recommended for a cancer patient? With so much nutrition information at our fingertips, it can be hard to make sense of it all. For the cancer patient, it be
Is a plant based diet recommended for a cancer patient? With so much nutrition information at our fingertips, it can be hard to make sense of it all. For the cancer patient, it be
I am sure all of you have heard the phrase “ A picture’s worth a thousand words!” I first heard it from my undergraduate biology professor, who always reminded us that each time we
Yay! It’s November again and I get to write the first science blog for Lung Cancer Awareness Month. And what’s more interesting and important than early detection of lung cancer? I
As a pathologist specializing in lung disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Lida Hariri’s job is to analyze lung biopsy samples and diagnose patients. After years of doing
In early-stage (stage I) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), high-dose radiation can be used in lieu of surgery to cure patients. Whether radiation therapy or surgery is performed
Early-stage lung cancer patients are frequently treated, and often cured, with surgery. Over the past 15 years, new technologies have made surgical outcomes for early-stage lung
The success we have seen with targeted therapeutics for EGFR-mutated or ALK-rearranged lung cancers has not been demonstrated in KRAS-positive tumors. I am really excited that that
After losing both parents to lung cancer, Dr. Timothy Burns, now an oncologist and researcher specializing in lung cancer at the University of Pittsburgh, committed himself to
Lecia Sequist, MD, MPH, the Landry Family Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a thoracic oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center as
Based on what I learned at the 17th Annual Targeted Therapies of the Treatment of Lung Cancer conference in February in Santa Monica, California, 2017 is going to be an important
Patrick Forde, MD, has a lot of experience running clinical trials. At any given time, he is running five to ten active clinical trials for patients with lung cancer at Johns
Each year Viswam Nair, MD, manages treatment plans for hundreds of patients at Stanford University . A pulmonologist with formal training in epidemiology, Dr. Nair stays current on