Lung cancer is among the most common cancers in the Western world. Lung cancer occurs due to the growth of malignant or abnormal cells in the lung. It is the third most common cancer in males and the fifth in females. Yet lung cancer is increasingly becoming a woman’s problem. The risk for dying of lung cancer is 20 times higher among women who smoke two or more packs of cigarettes per day than among women who do not smoke at all. Lung cancer is a cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. It can be very difficult to detect at an early stage because the symptoms often do not appear until the disease is far advanced.

Health experts say more needs to be done to educate women about the risk of lung cancer. Bearing in mind that breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, studies show that since 1987, more women have died each year of lung cancer than from breast cancer. Researchers have found that women who had one or more children had nearly a 40 percent lower risk of contracting lung cancer compared to women without children. Recently, research has suggested that women who don’t smoke are two to three times more likely than non-smoking men to develop lung cancer. In women, the three types of cancer most commonly seen are breast cancer, lung cancer, and colon cancer. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women (behind lung cancer), and the most common cancer in women.

Lung cancer kills more people than breast or prostate cancer, primarily because by the time it is detected, lung cancer is usually in an advanced stage. Also when cancer spreads to the lung from the breast, the resulting cells are breast cancer cells, not lung cancer cells. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American women behind lung cancer, yet surveys have shown that women are more worried about getting breast cancer than lung cancer. Breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in women worldwide, accounting for more than 400000 deaths per year.

Today there are many treatment options available to lung cancer patients. The type of treatment for lung cancer depends on the cancer’s specific type, how far it has actually spread, and the patient’s status. It is important to know the stage in order to plan treatment. Treatment for a secondary lung cancer depends on the primary cancer. However, new anti-cancer drugs, improved staging and imaging techniques, combined with new surgical procedures have all contributed to dealing with the disease. Finding early-stage lung cancers is crucial in the treatment results for lung cancer. While having treatment for any stage of lung cancer, you will be able to manage some side effects that may accompany lung cancer or any cancer treatment.

Summary:

Lung cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the lung. We already know that the best way to prevent lung cancer is to quit or never start to smoke in the first place. Small cell lung cancer is a bit more common in men than women. But lung cancer is increasingly becoming a woman’s problem. The links between your smoking history and lung cancer is clear. Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world. It is the most deadly of cancers worldwide, resulting in up to 3 million deaths annually.

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Cancer screening tests are basically attempts to detect cancer at an early stage to increase the odds of a complete recovery before it is too late. There are generic cancer tests to detect signs of cancer in your body and other specialized cancer tests to detect specific cancer types. The exact type of cancer tests you should take depends on which cancer risk group you belong to.

Which Cancer Risk Group Do You Belong To?

There are 3 types of cancer risk groups:

Low risk ( 20% lifetime risk)

The lifetime risk is the probability of you getting a particular type of cancer in your lifetime. When you visit a doctor for cancer screening, you will be classified into one of the groups above according to your gender, age, lifestyle, environment, race and family history of cancer. For example, a man in his fifties who works in a factory, lives in a very polluted city and smokes 10 cigarettes per day may belong to the high risk group. People from different risk groups will have different cancer screening schedules and may start their screening tests at an earlier age or have more frequent tests.

It is important that you look up the cancer screening guidelines of your country to make sure your doctor is planning the right combination of cancer tests. Some tests may not give you all the confirmation you need therefore having the right tests is critical to find any signs of cancer as early as possible. Going through more tests than you need will only result in you spending a lot of unnecessary time and money.

What Are The Different Types Of Cancer Tests?

The tests you will be going through should involve some or all of the following:

Visual investigation of any lesions on your body, mouth, eyes, genitals, etc.Palpation tests to feel for any unusual lumps or tumors in your breasts, prostate, neck and other parts of your body.Endoscopy, X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), CT scans, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans or ultrasound scans.Lab tests like Biological Terraine Assessment (BTA), blood tests, pap smears, Anti-malignin antibody screen (AMAS) or Cancer Marker Tests.

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It is important that you follow your cancer screening test schedules religiously to prevent detecting any case of cancer in your body at a later or terminal stage. Everyone knows that the chances of treating cancer is easier in it’s early stages so please do not take the unnecessary risk by being arrogant and lazy about doing your cancer tests. These cancer tests could save you lots of money in the long run and most importantly, they could save your life.

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Thyroid cancer develops as a result of the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the thyroid gland, resulting in a tumor. Some of these tumors are benign or non cancerous while some are malignant or cancerous. The malignant tumors spread to the nearby tissues and other parts of the body causing severe complications. Since the thyroid gland is close to the skin, tumors often appear as lumps called thyroid nodules in the neck. Thyroid cancer is more widespread among women than men; however, the reason for this is not clear. About 20,000 cases of thyroid cancer are reported each year in the United States.

The precise causes of thyroid cancer remain vague. Some studies reveal that people who are exposed to large amounts of radiation or those who have undergone radiation treatments for medical purposes, especially on the head and neck, face an increased risk of developing thyroid cancer. The occurrence of thyroid cancer is high in countries where people follow a low iodine diet. People with certain medical conditions or a family history of thyroid disease have a higher risk of developing thyroid cancer. Incidents of thyroid cancer arise mainly in the age group of 25 to 65 years.

Thyroid cancer may be papillary, follicular, medullary, or anaplastic. A fine needle aspiration (FNA) test is an ideal test for thyroid cancer. Papillary is the most usual type, while Follicular is a less common one usually found in older people. Medullary and anaplastic are rare types, the former often hereditary and the latter fast-growing one seen more among older people. The anaplastic type is difficult to treat. Thyroid cancers tend to develop at a slow pace, and it may take some time before any symptoms appear. Most types of thyroid cancer can be treated successfully with early detection and appropriate surgical procedures.

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The following “Medical Miracle Story” ezine article fits nicely into the “Rascal’s Free Reprint Articles” section of my website Jesus4You.ws where it is an RSS Feed from my favorite article bank, EzineArticles.com.

For the telling my Earth Angel Sherin Story, I am going to use a complete e-mail that I sent to one of my down-line business partners, Marion, who assists me and my other new sign-up partners in two of our common Internet businesses.

Hi, My Ravishing Rascalette

We’ve got to get busy getting you into that red Ferrari, beautiful. I need to stay on tract once all of our elements are in place…LOL They’re coming together ~ thanks to my Marvelous Maid Marion and OUR Savior who made this “Match Made In Heaven” a reality.

About the MySpace site: I like and want the VERY SAME background set-up as yours. I love the “Tropics” which it reflects I love you too, My Wonderful, Helpful Maid. If you can put the Kris Kristofferson video onto my MySpace profile (as you have on my AWESOME Direct Matches Business Profile that you created for me also), that would be a bonus!

I’ve just received a call from one of my former agents and former sister-in-law, Sherin. She will be coming by here in Vancouver, WA within the next couple of days and I’m sure that she will be signing up for GDI (Global Domains International). I’ll place her under you, Cutie. You’ll be helping Sher to set up her website. LOL. You’ll love her, as I do you, “My Georgia Peach.”

Probably, Sher will be signing up for DM (Direct Matches) also. She is a smart businesswoman and will recognize how valuable DM is when I let her see it via one of the banners waving at visitors to my website. LOL

Sher was diagnosed with “Terminal Lymphoma ” and the Docs said that she would not make it. LOL That was about 17-20 years ago. With her sister ~ my then wife Vicki ~, I came over here to Vancouver to visit her obviously dying Sis’. Vick and I lived in Portland with our three children who were all school-age at the time. Cassie, our youngest daughter that we had together, had not yet arrived on this planet.

Anyway, Sherin was in her recliner ~ as she had been for a couple of weeks ~ unable to make it up the stairs to her condo’s bedroom. I’d no sooner come in the door ~ that she had told my wife would be unlocked for us ~ than Sher asked me, “Honey, what would you do if you were me?”

I answered, “Sher, I’d get myself onto a plane and fly down to Oral Robert’s City Of Hope Medical Center, in Tulsa Oklahoma, where I’d be surrounded by ‘Spirit Filled’ Dr’s who would agree that I could live.”

Sher said, “I’ve been reading here in this King James Bible where it says in James, “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. … What do you think of that?”

Sherin had the Bible open on the little table beside her recliner. She waited while I picked up the sacred book and read the scriptures myself. I was shocked! Not because the Bible said that she could be healed ~ but because my sister-in-law had a Bible. Like my wife, Sher had been raised in an abusive Mormon home. Neither one of them had wanted anything to do with that church or any other one.

To answer her question, I said, “That’s what it says, Sher.”

Immediately, she said, “I haven’t ever been to a real church. Do you know of a minister that would be willing to come over here and pray for me?”

“I think that I know of ONE,” I replied. “Payton Hudson! This is Sunday, he may still be at his church… It’s noon… That’s about the time the congregation got out last week ~ when I went alone again. Vicki went to another church last week, because she doesn’t like Payton’s church. She says it too noisy.”

Sher handed me her telephone and asked, “Will you try to call him for me?”

I did call, right then, and Payton’s wife answered telling me that the service had just ended. Geri’ said that she’d get her husband to talk with me before they went to lunch. Payton was soon on the telephone and I told him briefly why I had called.

“Sure, Brother!” Paton said ~ with confidence.”Let me talk to her.”

I handed the phone back to Sherin. They set up a time for him to bring a couple of ladies from his church with him ~ to pray for my sister-in-law’s healing ~ the coming Tuesday.

I didn’t see Sher for two weeks. When I did come back, she was still sitting in that same recliner. Gray in her color, she looked almost dead.

“I’ve been Healed,” Sher told me. “That minister, his wife, Geraldine, and another lady named Vickie Adams came over and they ‘Layed hands’ on me. I accepted Jesus as my Savior and my healing. They all three “Layed hands” on me. The next day, I went to see my Dr. ~ the cancer specialist ~ to tell him. He said I can’ be. But I know that I’m healed. Honest!”

Sherin sure didn’t look healed. All I could say was, “Great, Sher. I’ll agree with you. You’re healed!”

Then she hit me with the hard one. “The doctor said I am too far gone to start chemo’. That it was an unlikely option for anyone with a condition this far advanced ~ even if I had started when he had advised me too ~ anyway. I declined when he wanted me to start it ‘Right away’ about three months ago. Honey, what would you do if you were me?”

“WOW, Sher!” I said, my not-long-a-Christian-myself head spinning. “Let me think about this a minute… I’ve got to use your can… I’ll be right back…” I didn’t want to be asked a question like that. Getting up off of the couch ~ I started walking down her hallway toward the bathroom. I was talking frantically to The Lord in my head.

“WHAT?” I ask Him, “What do I say?”

As clear as could be, Jesus answered me audibly: “I walked on water.”

That didn’t make any sense to me. I was frustrated. I almost yelled out loud, “I know that! Why are telling me this NOW?”

Jesus answered me again, ever so calmly, yet once more in an audible voice, ” Yes son, I walked on water, but usually ~ when I wanted to cross the lake ~ I took a boat…”

Now, I’m not that smart, Marion. Instead of continuing to the toilet, I stopped… I understood… abruptly, I turned around and walked back over to Sherin who had notice my strange movements.

“Sher,” I said, “Go tell your Doc that you want to start your chemotherapy. OK, so your hair will fall out… I agree with you that you’re healed, but there must be some people at that hospital ~ and your Doctor ~ that need to be shown what Our Lord can do. Maybe, it’s some patients that you need to ‘Witness’ too?” I don’t remember using Sherin’s bathroom before leaving.

Well, the following day, her mother found Sher in the recliner ~ slipping into and out of consciousness. Her tiny mother picked up her limp, dehydrated, starving daughter’s body and carried her out to her own car. Then, she drove Sher to the hospital ~ where she was informed that she could not make the decision to have them begin Chemotherapy for her adult daughter. Sher returned to consciousness just long enough to authorize Chemo’ ~ after asking three people who she loved ~ that were at her bedside ~ and then went unconscious again.

Chemotherapy was started immediately. They didn’t believe that Sherin would even survive the 1st session. Well, she did! LOL She went on to endure a lot of miserable times ~ and her hair did indeed fall out. When she was totally cancer free ~ Sher’s hair grew back ~ curly If you ask Sherin how she survived “Incurable” Cancer, she will tell you that God healed her. “Jesus paid for my healing over 2,000 years ago. Yeah, I had to go through some horrible, miserable times ~ but Jesus gave me the strength and even the faith to get through it all.”

The very last time that I talked to my friend, Sher, about it, she said, “You know, Honey, I don’t even remember you and Vicki coming over to see me ~ the day before I started Chemo’. I don’t remember very much about that whole last week, even.”

Well, I sure will never forget it. Until very recently, it was the only time that I had ever heard My Lord speak to me in an audible voice. It is incredible how very calm that Jesus sounds when we are in a frenzy.

While wearing a turban, Sherin went back to college. She just decided that she would further her education while she was surviving “Terminal cancer.” At about 40 years of age ~ Sher earned a bachelor’s degree in speech ~ and went on to become a very successful real estate agent.

She has since traveled and cruised all over the world. Last year ~ for a high school ‘Graduation present’ ~ Sher fulfilled her promise to one of her gran-daughters, Jenny, that they would go to Europe after she graduated. LOL

Some years ago ~ after I’d opened my own real estate brokerage ~ Sher obtained her “Broker’s License” too. Rather than open her own brokerage, she became my most productive Associate Broker, and she managed my office for me when I wasn’t there ~ like when I’d intended to open another real estate brokerage in another state.

I returned to WA state from AZ, because Sher’s sister had taken our daughter with her when she, Vicki, informed me that she didn’t like it Arizona, that our daughter hated the new school, and she had left me in AZ. LOL After thinking about it for a few weeks, I decided that my wife and 3rd grade daughter were up in Washington ~ and that must be where The Lord wanted me to be ~ for he time being too.

I drove back to find that my wife already had obtained an apartment for just herself and my daughter. LOL And Vicki informed me that she wanted a divorce. Washington, like most states, has a ‘No-fault’ divorce option which we elected to exercise. I rented my own place ~ visited Cassiopeia on weekends ~ and concentrated on my real estate business.

A few months later, Sherin and I decided that ~ since we were good friends ~ we could share a nice, 2-bedroom apartment here in Vancouver, WA. We resided together until I bought another large house and moved her sister with my youngest daughter in to share it with me. Yes, Sherin was a very good ‘Roomie’ besides being a ‘Great Realtor.’ LOL

During our time living and working together, Sher and I had some good laughs, too. She’s a ‘Crack-up.” Sher knows no fear. I used many of the delightful characteristics that I found in my former sister-in-law as the basis of a character that I created in my mystery novel ~ FOR SALE BY OWNERS:FSBO ~ which I later wrote and published.

Seeing that I was severely depressed ~ suffering the effects of selling my real estate brokerage because of the debilitating impact of my too-bad-to-deny-any-longer MS (Multiple Sclerosis) ~ Sher had bought me a book on how to write and sell your first novel ~ hoping that I would take the bait and overcome my great depression. LOL It worked, for which I am deeply indebted to my sensitive Earth~Angel friend.

Some of my most fond memories of my times with Sher involve when we went to Europe together ~ on a month-long vacation that we both enjoyed. That was long before I had EVEN admitted that I had MS (Multiple Sclerosis) ~ although many of the mid-stage symptoms were obvious. Probably, it was another six years or so before I was “Cured” of that “Incurable Dread disease.” Sherin is a trouper! I believe ~ with all of my heart ~ that Sher is also an Earth Angel.

When she comes over in the next couple of days, My Maid Marion, I’m going to help Sherin to understand that she is an Earth~Angel and that she needs to get busy with us on doing The Lord’s work while becoming rich via His easy way that He’s shown me for is elect chosen. Please agree with me in prayer, Marion, that Sherin will accept His commission ~ as she accepted His provision to be healed of “Terminal Lymphoma.”

Well, my married maiden, this got so long that I will use it in a new ezine article which I plan to submit when I awaken after taking a now needed nap

I love you, My Ravishing Earth~Angel Rascalette

~Rub-it “My Earth Angel Friend - Sherin - Surviving Terminal Lymphoma Cancer Story Appears”~

Rascal :))

RASCAL RUSS MILES IS AN APOSTLE. Chosen by The Lord, in the Apostolic Order of Apostle, Paul, Rascal says, “I Am The Lord’s Playfully Mischievous Apostle.” Expert in Scriptural understanding, Rascal’s mission includes the assignment to “Shout from the rooftops the Lord’s Inspired Messages via Ezine aArticles, Cyber-Space, Books, Mailings To ‘My Good Buddy’s List’,and Many Other means.”

Pseudonym, Russ Miles, Rascal’s credits include mystery novel, For Sale By Owners:FSBO. 1-800-AUTHORS or B&N, & Amazon

“Seasoned Real Estate NAR Broker,” Rascal Russ became increasingly disabled by “Incurable” Multiple Sclerosis over 5-years. Now “Cured”, Rascal offers nutritional health products, healing prayers, writes books & articles on varied subjects. Comments: Rascal.Miles@Gmail.com.

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