My Grandfather was a regular smoker, he died some two year back because of lung cancer. I also smoke I want to know that if i havea hing probability to have cancer like that.
I’m 17 and have smoked 2-3 cigaretts a day for about a year and decided to quit recently. I have read a sign of lung cancer is shortness of breath which I’ve been having the last 2 days. Is it because I’m craving nicotine that I feel like getting fresh air and having the need to take deep breath?
A study of residents of a region showed that 20% were smokers. The probability of death due to lung cancer, given that a person smoked, was ten times the probability due to lung cancer, given that the person did not smoke. If the probability of death due to lung cancer in the region is 0.006, what is the probability of death due to lung cancer given that the person is a smoker? Let S be the event the person smokes, let L be the event that a person dies due to lung cancer.
My grandmother was diagnosed with lung cancer, it has grown from the size of a grape to the size of a golf ball in a month. She won’t do any chemo/radiation or surgery, because she wants the time she has left to be good, and the docs said she has a year left. BUT … first, if it’s grown that fast, how can she have a year? And every instance of lung cancer I’ve ever heard of has had the patients die much sooner … like Peter Jennings was given six months and lived like two weeks, and another I read about was given a year and died less than three months later. How long does she have, realistically?
How can you tell if someone has lung cancer?
My boss lost a lot of weight I think he has lung cancer. He keep coughing and he looks very week . When he does cough it is in a very week way . I think he Hiding it from everyone. He keeps drinking whight gain shake. Just last year he was saying how he wants to lose weight Now he cant keep it on. I see him only every few week but he seems week over the phone . He does not look like he,s on chemo. I feel so bad for him.
My 37 year old sister has two masses of incurable cancer on each lung. It is inoperable. I am just curious. How long did she have it. 1 year, 2 years? I just wonder how long she was walking around with cancer not even knowing it. Thank for any help. She is to young to die.
I am 19 years old and I have lung cancer the medications the doctors are giving me are making me sicker then I was before I started. Is there any natural way to ease the pain?
One of my very close relatives was diagnosed to have kidney cancer on September last year. She underwent a surgery, which reportedly went very well. However, she went back to re-check this summer and was detected that the cancer has spreaded over both of her lungs. Since this September, she has been taking a medication named Gefitinib, which is supposed to be the only effective drug against lung cancer as of today.
But I would really want to know what is her real chance of surviving from the lung cancer.
Thank you very much.
For cigarette smokers the lung cancer mortality rate = 140 per 100000. For nonsmokers the lung cancer mortality rate = 10 per 100000.
This is a question in my epidemiology class. And we have to interpret the results. Thanks!
We have to calculate the association between smoking adn dying of lung cancer by using the numbers above. Then with that number we have to interpret the results. I’m not sure how to go about doing that.
My sister was operated on for lung cancer, the mass removed. Now doctors have discoverd lymph nodes at the top of her lungs and are suggesting radiation or chemo. What will be the results? Could she be cured?
