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Warning to heed lung cancer signs
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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Yet none realised their tiredness, coughs and breathlessness might be serious or symptoms of lung cancer, the authors told the journal Thorax. (article 1)
Warning signs Nearly 38,000 people a year get lung cancer in the UK, of whom 33,000 will die within six months because they have been diagnosed too late, according to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. (article 1)
But in the case of lung cancer, cells grow abnormally, multiplying in an out of control manner, eventually forming a mass called a tumour. (article 3)
Only one in five cancer survivors is disabled, and one in 10 quits work for a cancer-related reason in the first four years after diagnosis, according to a new study. (article 5)
Researchers say roughly half of all adult cancers are diagnosed in people under age 65, which means the disease could potentially affect their professional life and work opportunities. (article 5)
The results showed that similar numbers of men and women stopped working during cancer treatment (41 percent and 39 percent, respectively), and most of the survivors who returned to work did so during the first year. (article 5)
Top of the list was waits for breast cancer diagnosis of up to 17 weeks and for radiotherapy treatment of up to 16 weeks. (article 4)
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Story keywords
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Cancer, lung, diagnosis, breast, survivors |
Source articles
- Warning to heed lung cancer signs (BBC News, 03/26/2005, 388 words)
- CBC News Indepth: What's killing Canadians? (cbc.ca, 03/26/2005, 220 words)
- CBC News Indepth: What's killing Canadians? (cbc.ca, 03/26/2005, 291 words)
- Breast screening challenge issued (BBC News, 03/23/2005, 425 words)
- Few Cancer Survivors Quit Work (CBS News, 03/24/2005, 479 words)
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