NOTES+Lung+Cancer+Jenny+Karen+Emily

= QUESTION: = ||  What are the **__EFFECTS__** of lung cancer?
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|| 2. __Health and Illness Volume II__, Magill’s Medical Guide. Published by Salem Press 3. __ Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment (PDQ®) ____ Patient Version __  National Cancer Institute. Last modified: 2/13/09. []
 * **Citation** || 1. __Cancer__, by Lisa Yount. Published by Lucent Books, Inc.

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 * ** Subject of notes ** || Respiratory system, lung tumors, cancer, diseases, lung cancer

|| Notes ** || * Lung Cancer: The appearance of malignant tumors in the lungs, which is usually associated with cigarette smoking Ideas ** || * Get animations of people dying while smoking their cigarette = RESEARCH = = QUESTION: = || How can we **__TREAT__** lung cancer? || **Citation **
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 * Respiratory system affected
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Symptoms:
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Persistent cough that doesn’t go away
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Shortness of breath
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Chest pain that doesn’t go away
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Coughs up blood
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Swelling of face or neck
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Unusual tiredness
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Weight loss with unknown reason
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Loss of appetite
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Symptoms don’t show unless the tumor in lung has become large
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Tumors in the lungs; cancer cells from the lungs are spread to other parts of the body ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">**
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Videos of people who regret smoking at the first place
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Sometimes, I wonder whether people know their killing themselves and still keep killing themselves… ||

|| <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1. __ Health and Illness Volume II __, Magill’s Medical Guide. Published by Salem Press <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2. __ Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment (PDQ®) ____<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> Patient Version __ National Cancer Institute. Last modified: 2/13/09. []

|| || <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> ||  ||   ||
 * < <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">** Subject of notes ** ||< <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Lung Cancer, cancer, disease ||< <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> ||
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Notes ** ||< * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Diagnosis of a tumor:
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Chest X-ray
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> Physical exam of body
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> CT scan (CAT scan) – Tomography (observe tissues
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> Bronchography (Bronchoscope into body, X-ray )
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> PET scan - (observation with glucose use for tumor cells )
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Cytologic examination of sputum/bronchiole washings
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy of lung
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Treatment is dependent on the form of disease, location, stage; patients’ age, health, and medical history
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are the preferred method of treatment
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Becuz of the disease, surgery cannot operate at the time of diagnosis – too late
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Prognosis of forms of lung cancer remain poor
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">Prognosis of forms of lung cancer remain poor
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Lung cancer is very hard to treat
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Most people die of lung cancer: only 10% are alive five years after their cancer has been diagnosed
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Amer. Men - Lung cancer is 1st cause of cancer deaths
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Amer. Women – Lung cancer is 2nd cause of cancer deaths ||
 * < <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">**Ideas** ||< <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; msobidifontsize: 16.0ptmso-fareast-font-family;">* Even though surgeries are the preferred method to treat Lung cancer, it seems like there isn’t a permanent or a clear way to cure lung cancers.
 * People are still dying rapidly from lung cancers…
 * Pictures and bullet points for this part:
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 16.0ptmso-fareast-font-family;">__ [(positron emission tomography) scan. The patient lies on a table that slides through the PET machine. The head rest and white strap help the patient lie still. A small amount of radioactive glucose (sugar) is injected into the patient's vein, and a scanner makes a picture of where the glucose is being used in the body. Cancer cells show up brighter in the picture because they take up more glucose than normal cells do.] __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontsize: 16.0ptmso-fareast-font-family;">(The pic. and ex.)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; msobidifontsize: 16.0ptmso-fareast-font-family;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 宋体; msobidifontsize: 16.0ptmso-fareast-font-family; msofareastthemefont: minor-fareast; msofontkerning: 16.0pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">[|http://www.cancer.gov/Common/PopUps/popImage.aspx?imageName=/images/cdr/live/CDR435997-750.jpg&caption=Bronchoscopy. A bronchoscope is inserted through the mouth, trachea, and major bronchi into the lung, to look for abnormal areas. A bronchoscope is a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and a lens for viewing. It may also have a cutting tool. Tissue samples may be taken to be checked under a microscope for signs of disease.] <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msobidifontsize: 16.0ptmso-fareast-font-family;"> (The Pic and ex.)

= RESEARCH = = QUESTION: = || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> What are the __**CAUSES**__ of Lung cancer?

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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">**Citation**

|| <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> <span style="msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1. __Cancer__, by Lisa Yount. Published by Lucent Books, Inc. <span style="msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2. __Health and Illness Volume II__, Magill’s Medical Guide. Published by Salem Press <span style="msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">3. __ Lung Cancer Prevention __ __ (PDQ®) ____<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> Patient version __ National Cancer Institute. Last modified: 2/16/06. [] || || Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lung Diseases || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">** Notes ** || * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Polluted air || * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Small/oat cell lung cancers seem to be the most malignant and dangerous form of lung disease
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">** Subject of notes **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Cigarette smoking
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">2nd hand smoke, 3rd hand smoke
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Chemicals:
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">asbestos
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">radon
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">arsenic
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">chromium
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">nickel
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">tar
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">soot
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> 1st damaged cells are bronchial tubes: carries air into lungs.
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Hairs grown here force the thick liquid (mucus) to keep moving down: smoking destroys these hairs. Mucus is stuck in these tubes
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">The more cigarettes smoked, the higher risk of lung cancer
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Forms of lung cancer:
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Squamous cell carcinomas (30% of lung cancers)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Can prognosis better than other forms
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Adenocarcinomas (along with squamous cell, 30% of lung cancers)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Tumors may arise from damaged or scarred tissue – smokers
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Not as dependent upon smoke inhalation
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Small/Oat cell carcinomas (25% of lung cancers)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Metastasize early and widely to bone marrow and brain
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Patients with this disease only have – at most – months of a survival period
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Large cell carcinomas (15% of lung cancers)
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">A more general form of cancer, where cells are enlarged, esp. the nucleus ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">** Ideas **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Make a quiz at the end about the forms of lung carcinomas ||

= RESEARCH = = QUESTION: = || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">How can we **__PREVENT__** lung cancer? || <span style="msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2. __ Lung Cancer Prevention __ __ (PDQ®) ____<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> Patient version __ National Cancer Institute. Last modified: 2/16/06. []
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">
 * Citation** ||< <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> <span style="msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1. __Sick! Diseases and Disorders, Injuries and Infections Volume 3.__ Newton, David; Olendorf, Donna; Jeryan, Christine; Boyden, Karen. Published by U.X.L. 2000.

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 * < ** Subject of Notes ** || <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Lung Cancer, cancer, disease, cigarettes

|| || * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">People can easily prevent this disease, but they just don’t bother… = RESEARCH = = QUESTION: = || <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> Are there any **__NEWS LINKED__** to lung cancer?
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Notes ** || * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Don’t smoke cigarettes: even if you stop smoking, you may still develop lung cancer
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Products may help people stop smoking e.g.:
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">nicotine gum
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">nicotine sprays
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">nicotine inhaler
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">nicotine patches
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">nicotine lozenges
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">antidepressant drugs
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Avoid polluted air
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Avoid all types of smoke: first-hand, second-hand, and third-hand
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Avoid chemicals that can cause the disease, e.g. asbestos, ||
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">** Ideas **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">** Ideas **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Smokers must also need therapy lessons or health lessons to understand the disadvantages smoking gives: this can also be one type of prevention
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Make a quiz at the end… ||

|| <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> **Citatio**** n **

|| <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> <span style="msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">1. __ Lung Cancer Prevention __ __ (PDQ®) ____<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> Patient version __ National Cancer Institute. Last modified: 2/16/06. [] <span style="msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-list: Ignore; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2. __ Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S.A. __ Posted by Marshall, July 1, 2008. []

|| <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;"> **Subject of notes**

|| Lung Cancer, cancer, disease, cigarettes

|| **Notes**

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 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Cancer death is the 2nd cause of death in the U.S.
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S.
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">23% of Cancer deaths in U.S. is lung cancer, and 83% of those are smokers and ex-smokers
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Most common cancer in American men
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">2nd most common cancer in American women ||
 * **Ideas**

|| * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">[] <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Causes of Death Piechart recorded on July1, 2008
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left; msofareastlanguage: ZH-CN;">Pictures and bullet points are better here ||