WIS10 reports: Health Alert: Cancer survival rates improving

However, lung cancer continues to be one of the top three cancers found in both men and women.

NY Times: Jeff Healey, Guitarist and Singer, Dies at 41

How Cigarette Smoke Causes Cancer: Study Points To New Treatments, Safer Tobacco

ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2008) — Everyone has known for decades that that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide (or similar oxidants) in cigarette smoke is the culprit. This finding may help the tobacco industry develop "safer" cigarettes by eliminating such substances in the smoke, while giving medical researchers a new avenue to developing lung cancer treatments.

Teen isn't letting cancer get her down By: Phyllis Britt w/ North Augusta Star

Mary-Louise Pawlowski, an extremely brave 13 year old from North Augusta, has been diagnosed with a Primal Neural Ectodermal Tumor (PNET) in her chest wall, after her pediatrician spotted a mass on her right lung from an X-ray and CT scan. She began experiencing upper back pain in November of 2007, and everyone thought she may have had pneumonia. However, another X-ray shed a different light.
Read more about this brave little girl's fight, and please consider supporting her foundation. The MLP Foundation supports cancer research and helps defray medical related expenses. Each year during the Christmas Holiday Season, Mary-Louise will designate a Cancer Center, Hospital, or Research Center that will receive the proceeds from the donations and gifts that have been contributed. Every dollar counts and it can make a difference.
We R Praying 4 MLP!

Honoring Mr. Caine Halter of the Greenville Area

The real estate firm Coldwell Banker Commercial recently named an annual, national industry leadership award after Mr. Caine Halter, a prominent Greenville real estate executive who was president of Coldwell Banker Commercial Caine. Halter passed away in August of 2007 after valiantly battling lung cancer.