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Lung cancer cures are the goal of the research working to create procedures and devices to get you healthy again. It never stops, though like all medical research its progress depends on the economy. Most medical research, especially research dealing with cancer, happens in the United States.
Living in America gets you the best chance for recovery if you're willing to try some of the materials coming out of research. People travel to America to participate in lung cancer research programs and the hope of being part of a lung cancer cure.
We cover a lot of details on cancer research on this web site in order to help everyone get the best treatment. This allows you to make an informed choice on becoming part of the cancer research process.
Linked to this page are specific essays on lung cancer cures, both for new drugs and new devices and treatments. There are also links and essays for experimental therapies that may sound unusual or dangerous. This is a very complicated area and no one group can know it all - we will direct you to research sites so you can learn more from the same places we did.
We have a Lung Cancer Resource News form in the upper right portion of this page, and will be happy to add you to our mailing list. We will inform you as soon as important developments from new cancer research become available.
Clinical trials are where any treatment gets tested to see if it's effective against lung cancer. Lung cancer's definition makes this very challenging, since lung cancer early detection is so rare. Clinical trials are expensive. The research requires a lot of laboratory and animal tests. Reading and matching the data takes time to interpret, and these are run at national laboratories, as well as private industry labs.
Most medical research, especially research dealing with cancer, happens in the United States.
The money that's used to pay for lung cancer cures comes from investors, and is called risk capital. The United States has more investors willing to do this than any other country and is the world leader in innovation in cancer research. Investors hope that the capital they put up will return a profit, but it relies on investors willing to take risks. The current problem on Wall Street has made a lot of investors less comfortable with risk, which is hindering research funding.
When everything is working right, the risk capital funds clinical trials, and new medical procedures get tested and developed, and then approved by the Food and Drug Administration if they're proven to be good.
Every lung cancer treatment available on the market came from lab experiments, and many of these drug cocktails and ways to get the drugs to the cancer cells are being constantly improved. New frontiers in lung cancer research are being opened all the time.
New avenues for radiation therapy are being explored to make lung cancer treatment less invasive, and there are research projects around to try and find ways to detect lung cancer earlier when it's easier to treat.
Our site has no financial stake in the research we're documenting. We update these pages regularly, and want to present unbiased information. We want you to get the best information so that you can get as healthy as possible as quickly as possible.
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"This website is for all lung cancer patients, their families and friends. I want people to know that they can overcome this disease by learning what to do, where to go for great medical help, how to deal with insurance and all the other problems facing them.
I have worked with some great people to make this web site easy to understand and devoted to helping you. Please let me know if anything doesn't help you or if we can do something more that would be useful to you.
The most important factor in a person getting healthy is their personal determination and their will to be better. You have to summon that determination and then take the steps described here - we are here to help and support you."
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