What Is My Risk of Getting Lung Cancer?

It was estimated by the American Cancer Society that there would be 161,840 deaths from lung cancer in 2008 (90,810 among men and 71,030 among women), accounting for about 29% of all cancer deaths. Additionally, it was estimated by the American Cancer Society that there would be 215,020 new lung cancer cases diagnosed in 2008 (114,690 among men and 100,330 among women), accounting for about 15% of all cancer diagnoses.  More women die each year from lung cancer than from breast, uterine, and ovarian cancers combined. Every hour of every day, 19 people die from lung cancer and at least 15-percent never smoked. Lung cancer is considered a silent killer, since the disease is most often not detected until it is in a terminal stage. (Source: American Cancer Society)



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Manufacturing- Contract Manufacturing

AS Twomey Manufacturing provides commercial marine towing as well as IT Consulting services in the regional area of  MA and sources IT Consulting, Licensed Seagoing Crew as a community partner.

Category: It Consulting, Licensed Seagoing Crew

Find out where you can get Syntactic foam. Since 2010, Mica-Tron has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Syntactic Foam

Find out where you can get phrase. Since 2010, Mica-Tron has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Phrase

Find out where you can get phrase. Since 2010, Mica-Tron has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Phrase

http://www.polyfab.biz allows users to search for the best MA Manufacturing for the ideal Custom Polypropylene Tanks company as a community partner.

Category: Custom Polypropylene Tanks

Company profile and product/services listings found at Contract Manufacturing Specializing in the MA industry, they are part of the looking for commercial property management services. section of the directory.Polyfab to solve the day-to-day operational details.

Category: Graduated Cylinders

A Contract Manufacturing company that develops, manufactures and blends performance-enhancing Oven Forming Acrylic for the Manufacturing market.

Category: Oven Forming Acrylic

Based in MA, Polyfab provides Polycarbonate Adhesive Bonding as a Contract Manufacturing engineered plastic fabrications company.

Category: Polycarbonate Adhesive Bonding

Specialize in ergonomic office computer workstation. Proline has, since 2005, been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Ergonomic Office Computer Workstation

Manufacturing- Distribution

Online provider of Scale calibration, scale service, counting scale as an Distribution engineering and consulting manufacturers representative firm.

Category: Scale Calibration, Scale Service, Counting Scale

Manufacturing- High Technology

Sells new membrane switches, rotary switches, custom keyboards at competitive prices, primarily as a High Technology DoD engineering corporation.

Category: Membrane Switches, Rotary Switches, Custom Keyboards

Manufacturing- Materials & Heavy Equipment

Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including diamond cup wheels, superabrasives, diamond grinding wheels, precision surface grinding, used in the Materials and Heavy Equipment vertical marketplace.

Category: Diamond Cup Wheels, Superabrasives, Diamond Grinding Wheels, Precision Surface Grinding

JOWA Consilium offer our customers the greatest possible values on quality Metritape, Consilium, Liquid Level Gauging, Tank Level Gauging services. Member since 2001.

Category: Metritape, Consilium, Liquid Level Gauging, Tank Level Gauging

Manufacturing- Contract Manufacturing

As one of the area's privately-owned Manufacturing corporations, NES Technologies in MA Manufacturing provides component manufacturing and assembly work. Member since 1999.

Category: Component Manufacturing And Assembly Work

North American company selling to Manufacturing groups residential and commercial stone paving. Nantucket Pavers has been listed in MA Manufacturing since 2002.

Category: Residential And Commercial Stone Paving

As an institution, PMES Engineering has been a good corporate sponsor for the VA hot forging metals industry. A member of the directory since 2012 in the Manufacturing section.

Category: Hot Forging Metals Industry

Provides and builds electromechanical assembly, engineering, massachusetts. Found in the Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing group in this directory.

Category: Electromechanical Assembly, Engineering, Massachusetts

Supplies material assemblies and subassemblies manufacturing in the Contract Manufacturing service arena.

Category: Material Assemblies And Subassemblies Manufacturing

AS Twomey Manufacturing provides commercial marine towing as well as IT Consulting services in the regional area of  MA and sources IT Consulting, Licensed Seagoing Crew as a community partner.

Category: It Consulting, Licensed Seagoing Crew

DavTech Plating is a registered member in the Manufacturing vertical market and services the area's needs. Visit us at http://host.web-print-design.com/davtech to see how we're helping our clients every day.

Category: Nickless Plating

Sells new and used Fiber Optics parts, attenuators, repeaters, splicing equipment at competitive prices, primarily as a Contract Manufacturing manufacturer and distribution warehouse company.

Category: Fiber Optics Parts, Attenuators, Repeaters, Splicing Equipment

Provides a complete range of Manufacturing and subcontracting services. Located in MA, Lavelle Machine services a broad range of retail, business, and institutional clients. Filed with Contract Manufacturing.

Category: Plating And Subassembly Manufacturing, Medical Machining

http://www.polyfab.biz allows users to search for the best MA Manufacturing for the ideal Graduated Cylinders company as a community partner.

Category: Graduated Cylinders

Company profile and product/services listings found at Contract Manufacturing Specializing in the MA industry, they are part of the Custom Polypropylene Tanks section of the directory.Polyfab to solve the day-to-day operational details.

Category: Custom Polypropylene Tanks

A Contract Manufacturing company that develops, manufactures and blends performance-enhancing Plastic Cones for the Manufacturing market.

Category: Plastic Cones

Based in MA, Polyfab provides Architectural Acrylic Displays as a Contract Manufacturing engineered plastic fabrications company.

Category: Architectural Acrylic Displays

Based in MA, Polyfab provides Clear Plastic Cylinders as a Contract Manufacturing prototyping and machining firm.

Category: Clear Plastic Cylinders

Online provider of Rivco doors, windows as an Contract Manufacturing general contractor manufacturers company.

Category: Rivco Doors, Windows

Offers home improvement products that includes Rivco Kitchen supplies, accessories, interior kitchen remodeling enhancement products. Since 2001, Rivco - Kitchen Division has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Rivco Kitchen Supplies, Accessories, Interior Kitchen Remodeling Enhancement Products

Specialize in ergonomic office computer workstation. Proline has, since 2005, been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Ergonomic Office Computer Workstation

Specialized in Contract Manufacturing with operations and headquarters in MA, GES - Manufacturing Division is a leading national provider of component manufacturing. Directory listing since 2000.

Category: Contract Manufacturing

IntegraTech - Corporate has been a trusted partner for MA Contract Manufacturing fellow firms since 2001, providing sound resource management for Manufacturing members.

Category: Contract Manufacturing

Contract Manufacturing company with operations in MA providing CNC machining and component assembly services to regional manufacturing operations. Became a member of this listing in 2000. Member of the Manufacturing group.

Category: Contract Manufacturing

Find out where you can get Macor. Since 2016, Mica-Tron has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Macor

Providing high quality new Syntactic foam. Since 2016, Mica-Tron has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Syntactic Foam

Offers a range of Macor machining. Since 2016, Mica-Tron has been listed in the Contract Manufacturing directory.

Category: Macor Machining

milling, CNC machines, polypropylene router machining, router polyethylene

Category: Giant Plastic Cylinders

Providing a complete range of Contract Manufacturing, Proteq has been a good corporate sponsor for the NH Manufacturing board. A senior member of this listing since 2004 in the Manufacturing vertical.

Category: Contract Manufacturing

Manufacturing- Distribution

Shop Discrete Semiconductors in the Distribution category to find the best deals in MA for semiconductor sales.

Category: Semiconductor Sales

Electronic Products is committed to strengthening the Manufacturing industry through collective support, services, and leadership in providing Electronic Products services. Located in MA, Electronic Products has been an Affordable Distribution supplier since 2002.

Category: Distribution

McCarton Industrial

Category: Distribution

Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including Couplers, Attenuators, used in the Distribution industry

Category: Couplers, Attenuators

Provides and builds antistatic control products. Found in the Manufacturing, Distribution group in this directory.

Category: Antistatic Control Products

Electrical Controls is a registered member in the Manufacturing vertical market and services the area's needs. Visit us at http://host.web-print-design.com/electrical-controls to see how we're helping our clients every day.

Category: Distribution

Company profile and product/services listings found at http://host.web-print-design.com/acme. Specializing in the print, print brokerage and print production industry, they are part of the Manufacturing Distribution section of the directory.

Category: Print, Print Brokerage And Print Production

A leading source for supercomputer arrays from American Digital.

Category: Supercomputer Arrays

Sells new and used copy and dictation equipment at competitive prices, primarily as a Distribution specialist firm.

Category: Copy And Dictation Equipment

A producer of specialty semiconductors for the NH Distribution retail space.

Category: Semiconductors

Offers a range of used high technology medical research equipment consulting services and is posted in the Affordable Distribution market.

Category: Used High Technology Medical Research Equipment

Find out where you can get home health aids. Since 2001, Lomedco Medical has been listed in the Distribution directory.

Category: Home Health Aids

A stocking distributor with worldwide sales capacity and industrial supply, Lumipure in the Manufacturing market sells and services residential and commercial HVAC for smaller spaces in CT, and has been a member since 2000.

Category: Distribution

Supplies promotional plastic products manufacturing and distribution for the Manufacturing Distribution service area.

Category: Promotional Plastic Products Manufacturing And Distribution

Offers a range of products and services for markets including personal and corporate identification. Winco Identification has been a member since 2000 in the Distribution directory.

Category: Personal And Corporate Identification

Offers Distribution services for ergonomic seating equipment. Since 2000, Work Right has been listed in the Manufacturing directory.

Category: Ergonomic Seating Equipment

Online provider of Scale calibration, scale service, counting scale as an Distribution engineering and consulting manufacturers representative firm.

Category: Scale Calibration, Scale Service, Counting Scale

Furniture Installations provides fantastic values on all the latest decorating trends in the Manufacturing market. Specializes in Furniture Installations. Located in MA, Furniture Installations has been an Corporate Distribution supplier since 2001.

Category: Distribution

Nytek offer our customers the greatest possible values on quality space age material production services. Member since 2001.

Category: Space Age Material Production

A supplier of cat 5 and cat-5e cabling and located in RI, Warehouse Cables has been an Corporate Distribution supplier since 2005.

Category: Cat 5 And Cat-5E Cabling

Corporate Distribution service that provide opportunities to own reused medical equipment. Customized to your requirements by Elektra Medical.

Category: Reused Medical Equipment

Manufactures and engineers Identification Resources used for applications in the Distribution industrial marketplace.

Category: Distribution

Offers a range of services including static control flooring and ESD tiling. Julie Industries has been a member since 2001 in the Distribution directory.

Category: Static Control Flooring And Esd Tiling

Manufacturing- High Technology

A producer of specialty integrating sphere components for the NH High Technology retail space.

Category: Integrating Sphere Components

North American company selling to Manufacturing groups plasma systems. AST Products Inc has been listed in MA Manufacturing since 1999.

Category: Plasma Systems

Ibis v.02 is a registered member in the Manufacturing vertical market and services the area's needs. Visit us at http://host.web-print-design.com/ibis to see how we're helping our clients every day.

Category: High Technology

Company profile and product/services listings found at http://host.web-print-design.com/inphotonics. Specializing in the Raman industry, they are part of the Manufacturing High Technology section of the directory.

Category: Raman

A High Technology company that develops, manufactures and blends performance-enhancing optical lasers for the Manufacturing market.

Category: Optical Lasers

Providers of High Technology-related services and is located in CA for individuals and corporations photonics. Look toThermo Photonics to solve those complex transactional details.

Category: Photonics

Optelec

Category: High Technology

Provides and engineers specialty spheres and goniometers. Found in the Manufacturing, High Technology group in this directory.

Category: Specialty Spheres And Goniometers

Applied Science Labs

Category: High Technology

Manufactures and engineers Aerogels used for applications in the High Technology industrial marketplace.

Category: Aerogels

Specializing in the Manufacturing High Technology sector for on the internet, Ferrotec provides the best in .ferrofluidic seals.

Category: Ferrofluidic Seals

Offers High Technology services for printing equipment. Since 2009, Pro Iris has been listed in the Manufacturing directory.

Category: Printing Equipment

Senko Semiconductors

Category: High Technology

Offers a range of nuclear metals engineering, formulation and production consulting services and is posted in the Corporate High Technology market.

Category: Nuclear Metals Engineering, Formulation And Production

As one of the area's privately-owned Manufacturing corporations, Thermo Electron Colorado in CO Manufacturing provides liquid handling automation. Member since 2000.

Category: Liquid Handling Automation

Thermo Keytek

Category: High Technology

Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including nitrogen laser, used in the High Technology vertical marketplace.

Category: Nitrogen Laser

Manufacturing- Materials & Heavy Equipment

Offers a range of services including shipping supplies. Horn Packaging- Ayer has been a member since 1997 in the Materials and Heavy Equipment directory.

Category: Shipping Supplies

Offers home improvement products that includes construction marble and composites. Since 2002, Merrimack Stone has been listed in the Materials and Heavy Equipment directory.

Category: Construction Marble And Composites

Online provider of quarried marble, finished granite products, heavy decorative stonework as an Materials and Heavy Equipment general contractor manufacturers company.

Category: Quarried Marble, Finished Granite Products, Heavy Decorative Stonework

North American scientific and laboratory equipment company that manufactures chemical substrates. Since 1998, Chemworks has been listed in the Materials and Heavy Equipment directory.

Category: Chemical Substrates

Provides and builds gauging equipment. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Gauging Equipment

A supplier of international shipping and located in MA, Horn International has been an Affordable Materials and Heavy Equipment supplier since 1995.

Category: International Shipping

Manufactures and distributes Rubber Grommets, Rubber Seals, Rubber Molding. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Rubber Grommets, Rubber Seals, Rubber Molding

Poly-Flex Circuits is a registered member in the Manufacturing vertical market and services the area's needs. Visit us at http://host.web-print-design.com/polyflex to see how we're helping our clients every day.

Category: Flexible Circuitboards

Manufactures and engineers veterinary testing equipment used for applications in the Materials and Heavy Equipment vertical marketplace.

Category: Veterinary Testing Equipment

Company profile and product/services listings found at http://host.web-print-design.com/stc. Specializing in the transistor test and validation equipment industry, they are part of the Manufacturing Materials and Heavy Equipment section of the directory.

Category: Transistor Test And Validation Equipment

Manufactures and engineers mechanical rollers used for applications in the Materials and Heavy Equipment industrial marketplace.

Category: Mechanical Rollers

Specializing in the Manufacturing Materials and Heavy Equipment sector for over a decade on the internet, Abenaki Timber provides the best in .timber management and reforestation products and services.

Category: Timber Management And Reforestation Products And Services

Provides and builds Precision machined components, CNC Swiss screw machining. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Precision Machined Components, Cnc Swiss Screw Machining

Offers a range of solutions in the large scale food service production equipment market. Consultant engineering services in the Materials and Heavy Equipment market.

Category: Large Scale Food Service Production Equipment

Bascom Turner

Category: Materials And Heavy Equipment

Sells new and used curb, vibration isolation, curb machine, burglar bar at competitive prices, primarily as a Materials and Heavy Equipment heavy new and rebuild constuction group.

Category: Curb, Vibration Isolation, Curb Machine, Burglar Bar

Industrial company designs, manufactures and markets products, services and technologies including diamond cup wheels, superabrasives, diamond grinding wheels, precision surface grinding, used in the Materials and Heavy Equipment vertical marketplace.

Category: Diamond Cup Wheels, Superabrasives, Diamond Grinding Wheels, Precision Surface Grinding

Provider of rolling diaphragms, diaphragm seals, rubber diaphragms, molded elastomer diaphragms, silicon diaphragms, dish diaphragms and engineering services. at competitive prices, primarily as a Materials and Heavy Equipment Manufacturing for large scale production runs.

Category: Rolling Diaphragms, Diaphragm Seals, Rubber Diaphragms, Molded Elastomer Diaphragms, Silicon Diaphragms, Dish Diaphragms

Offers Materials and Heavy Equipment services for synthetic fiber. Since 2001, Majilite has been listed in the Manufacturing directory.

Category: Synthetic Fiber

Broomfield Laboratories

Category: Materials And Heavy Equipment

Provides and builds specialty custom cranes. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Specialty Custom Cranes

Distributor with worldwide sales capacity and industrial supply, Wilevco in the Manufacturing market sells and services high capacity commercial food service preparation equipment in MA, and has been a member since 2001.

Category: Automatic Batter Mixer With Viscosity Control

Provides and engineers print production and laminates. Found in the Manufacturing, Materials and Heavy Equipment group in this directory.

Category: Print Production And Laminates

 

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Approximately 90% of all lung cancers occur among smokers and approximately 10% occur among non-smokers. (MLF Note: Some recent research indicates that approximately 8% of men and 20% of women diagnosed with lung cancer were never-smokers--see High Rates of Lung Cancer Found for Female Non-smokers). Passive smoking contributes to the development of lung cancer among non-smokers and certain occupational exposures such as asbestos exposure are also known to cause lung cancer. (Source: National Cancer Institute)  "Although cigarette smoking is the most common cause of lung cancer, other risk factors include industrial exposures to agents such as asbestos, arsenic, uranium, nickel, and chromates as well as exposures to the indoor air pollutants such as formaldehyde and radon gas. There are a significant number of patients who do not have the risk factors outlined above. Lung cancer is not necessarily a self-inflicted disease by smoking. The incidence of lung cancer in women without a history of prior smoking has increased in recent years.  Histologic types of lung cancer are different between smokers and non-smokers. The majority of patients with no prior smoking have a histologic type of adenocarcinoma as opposed to either squamous cell carcinoma or small cell carcinoma, common in patients with prior smoking. Estrogens are known to act as tumor promoters through a receptor-mediated mechanism in reproductive organs. There are some reports of estrogen receptor expression in lung cancer, and it is possible that the lung is an estrogen-responsive organ and that women are more susceptible to lung cancer than men, suggesting a role for estrogen in the development of this disease." (Source: Noah C. Choi, M.D., Distinguished Scholar in Thoracic Oncology, Director of MGH Thoracic Oncology Center, Head of Thoracic Oncology Unit,  Massachusetts General Hospital) 


How Can I Find Out If I Have Lung Cancer?

Early Detection Low-Dose Spiral CT Scan Screening

"How do you discover a lung cancer while it is curable?  Doctors no longer rely nearly as much on routine annual chest X-rays in smokers, because there are better diagnostic techniques. In my own practice, I send everyone at special risk-particularly cigarette smokers, past or present, for a low-dose helical CT scan of the chest every year or two. This scan has detected several small cancers among my patients, who subsequently were cured." (Source: Face The Facts About Lung Cancer, by Dr. Isadore Rosenfeld, Boston Sunday Globe, 11/9/03)

"The best hope of curing lung cancer is finding it as early as possible. If you are at risk, this new test (CT scan) can detect tiny spots on your lungs years before they would even be seen on a regular chest x-ray. These tiny spots, or nodules may be signs of early lung cancer." (Source: The New York Early Lung Cancer Action Program)

"Lung cancer results in more deaths in the United States than any other malignancy, and accounts for more cancer deaths than breast, colon, and prostate cancer combined. Lung cancer causes no symptoms in its earliest stages. Moreover, the five-year survival rate for lung cancer is only 14 percent, a number that has not changed significantly in many years. These statistics underscore the dire need for the earliest detection possible. An effective screening technique that detects the cancer in its initial stages may help prevent death in the nearly 170,000 individuals diagnosed with this disease each year." "CT screening transforms the prognosis for lung cancer, just as mammography did for breast cancer and the PAP test did for cervical cancer." "The current five-year survival rate for lung cancer is only 14 percent But that could soar to 80% if all smokers and ex-smokers received annual CT exams and early treatment" (Source: Claudia I. Henschke, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Radiology and Division Chief of Chest Imaging at the New York Weill Cornell Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital)

Spiral computed tomography (CT) of the chest performed in middle-aged smokers can help identify two to four times more lung cancers than chest x-rays, with more than 70 percent of the tumors still in Stage 1, according to an article on lung cancer in the first issue for November (2002) of the American Thoracic Society's peer reviewed journal, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. (Source: Intelihealth. com [a subsidiary of Aetna]).

The Early Lung Cancer Action Project.  Study population was 1,000 symptom-free volunteers of whom 46% were female and 54% were male.  The median age of this study was 67, the median pack years smoking was 47 and asbestos exposure was 14% of cohort.  The volunteers were considered medically able to have thoracic surgery.  Both chest x-ray and low-dose CT scan were utilized in the study.  The results of the study were as follows: (1) the low-dose CT scan detected nodules in 233 volunteers; the chest x-ray detected nodules in 68 volunteers.  (2) High Resolution CT scan evaluation of the volunteers in foregoing (1) showed that 27 of the 233 volunteers (2.7%) with CT scan detected nodules had Stage 1 resectable lung cancers, whereas 7 of the 68 volunteers (0.7%) with x-ray detected nodules had Stage 1 resectable lung cancers.  Study Conclusion was that low dose spiral CT scan is a useful way to identify early stage lung cancer in populations at high risk for developing lung cancer.  (Source: Lancet, July 10, 1999)

Early Lung Cancer Detection and Treatment Strategies. "Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States. The majority of lung cancer patients will present with advanced disease with a very poor overall survival.  Although prior screening trials have shown no benefit from screening, there is renewed interest in low-dose CT screening as a screening modality for lung cancer. A high proportion of screen-detected cancers are early stage and resectable for cure. For the majority of these early stage patients, standard lobectomy is the treatment of choice. New options to potentially detect and treat early stage lung cancer will increase dramatically in the future." (Source: Port JL, Kent M, Altorki NK, Surg Oncol. 2002; 11:191-199)

In the June 24, 2003, Personal Journal section of the Wall Street Journal, Spiral CT Scan for early stage lung cancer detection was listed in an article entitled: "Five Tests Worth Paying For--Health Insurance Usually Won't Cover Them, but They Could Save Your Life"

 
 
 

 
 
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