Lung Cancer: A Kentucky Tradition We’re Fighting to Change
Kentucky is a state with many proud traditions. They include more than a century of world-class horse racing, a fierce dedication to college sports, a love of our beautiful natural resources and the value of Southern hospitality.
Unfortunately, our beautiful state also leads the nation in tobacco-related cancers. Since November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, we wanted to share some facts with you about this unfortunate Kentucky tradition.
Our state leads the nation in the percentage of adults who smoke or use other tobacco products. That tradition has led to a lung cancer death rate that is 45 percent higher in Kentucky than in the nation as a whole.
Scientists and physicians at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center are working every day to ease the burden of tobacco-related cancers for Kentuckians and patients throughout the world through progressive research, patient care, patient education and cancer prevention programs.
Our research program focuses on drug discovery and development, with an emphasis on new approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tobacco related cancers. And working with our physicians who treat our patients every day, we are bringing these new treatments to the bedside.
Brown Cancer Center In the News
Want to know more about the Brown Cancer Center? Click the headlines below to learn more about the great work we’ve been doing.
From The Courier-Journal:
- Area researchers target ‘crisis’ of lung cancer
- UofL receives $3.15 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust
- New Hope for Head & Neck Cancer Patients with a Kentucky and Regional First
From The Courier-Journal:
- Even young women can get oral cancer, an ‘old man’s disease’
- Head & Neck Clinic Coordinator Named Oncology Nurse of the Year
Editorial in The Courier-Journal:
Discoveries from Discoveries
Discoveries Magazine is an annual publication of the Brown that features the cancer center’s latest findings and breakthroughs in cancer research, care and patient support. Click on the stories below to read more about how Brown Cancer Center scientists and physicians are addressing tobacco-related cancers in the laboratory and at the bedside.
Combining efforts between campuses, from clinics, and across the state, the Metabolomics team is finding new potential areas for treatment and prevention of lung cancers
Researchers and physicians at the Brown Cancer Center make a habit of breaking down traditional scientific “silos” to work together in new ways to tackle cancer. This advance feature from the Fall 2010 Discoveries Magazine demonstrates how the culture of teamwork is leading to world-renowned breakthroughs in our understanding of lung cancer.
The Elite Eight
Seven years after the first clinic opened, the Brown Cancer Center launches its eighth multidisciplinary clinic, reviews its successes, and examines the road ahead
Seven years after the first clinic opened, the Brown Cancer Center launches its eighth multidisciplinary clinic, reviews its successes, and examines the road ahead
Tobacco use dramatically increases risk for head and neck cancers. The Brown Cancer Center launched Kentucky’s first multidisciplinary clinic for the treatment of head and neck cancers in 2002. Read this feature from the Fall 2009 Discoveries Magazine to learn more about how the success of that clinic has led to the establishment of seven more, including the Lung Cancer Clinic.
Preventative Drug for HIV Manufactured in Plants Ready to Begin Clinical Development
This news story from the Fall 2009 Discoveries Magazine shows how Brown Cancer Center scientists are working with tobacco – the very cause of some cancers – as a conduit to develop new therapies for a range of diseases.
This news story from the Fall 2009 Discoveries Magazine shows how Brown Cancer Center scientists are working with tobacco – the very cause of some cancers – as a conduit to develop new therapies for a range of diseases.
John Trent, PhD is director of the Molecular Modeling Facility at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center. For years, he has been using computers linked together from across Kentucky to identify compounds that could be developed into drugs to treat cancer patients. Learn more about this ground-breaking work in this feature from the Fall 2010 Discoveries Magazine.
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