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LUNG CANCER
Famous internationai victims of this cancer include actor Paul Newman, the Marlboro men:
Wayne McLaren and David McLean; Christopher Reeve’s widow, who never smoked but lived in Radon gas territory (see below).
Yul Brynner, Singer Nat “King” Cole, J. Krishnamurti. Three bon vivant Bombay Gymkhana members — Ashok Mank’adGautam Thapar, Jean
laieckjee— died within one month of’this cancer. [click to continue…]
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Skin (cutaneous) syndromes
Various skin conditions are associated with some cases of lung cancer. These conditions are thought to be caused by aberrant behavior of white blood cells and their antibodies reacting either to the tumor or to substances produced by the tumor:
• Chronic inflammation of the skin (dermatomyositis) often occurs in conjunction with muscle and subcutaneous tissue inflammation.
• Gray-black warty patches on the elbows, knees, armpits, or groin (acanthosis nigricans)
• Itching (pruritis)
• Chronic red patches (erythema multiforme)
• Dark patches (hyperpigmentation)
• Hives (urticaria)
• Scaly patches (scleroderma)
• New tissue growth in fingertips (digital clubbing), a widening and rounding of the fingertips and nails and, when fingers are viewed from the side, a loss of normal indentation where the fingernail emerges from the skin.
Musculoskeletal syndromes
Certain lung tumors can cause the following symptoms by producing hormones or causing unusual tissue growth:
• Inflamed muscles, skin, and subcutaneous tissue (polymyositis-dermatomyositis) is thought by some researchers to be a araneoplastic syndrome. Some researchers believe this finding justifies intensive testing for presence of malignancy;
other studies have found no link between malignancy and this syndrome. [click to continue…]
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As a lung cancer survivor, your experiences are in some respects unique, beginning with your symptoms. It’s important to note that he process of the discovery of cancer is, by most people’s accounts, associated with great emotional upheaval. There may be a few of us who are so highly evolved spiritually or who have lived so full a life that we accept a cancer diagnosis with equanimity, but this is not the case for most of us.
Your unique illness
Lung cancer, formally called bronchogenic carcinoma, is not one disease, but a collection of diseases that affect the same organ and often cause similar symptoms. It might be tempting to compare your experiences with others who have had lung cancer, but it would be best to avoid making uneven comparisons that might upset you, as is likely to happen if you don’t know the precise
types and stages of lung cancers being compared.
If someone else experienced a treatment failure, for example, you might assume that your treatment will fail as well. Please keep in mind that the variation in lung cancer types means that your experience with symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment might well be very different from someone else’s. [click to continue…]
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