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Remember those old cigarette commercials urging women to smoke with the slogan “You’ve come a long way, baby!”. Well women have come a long way thanks to cigarettes...equality with men in developing lung cancer. On today’s Health Show, a look at women and lung cancer. We’ll also talk to an actress and lung cancer survivor who’s trying to bring fellow survivors out of the closet. Commentary about the proposal to consider smoking when giving a film a PG-13 or an R And a portrait of a choir who travel and sing for dying patients.
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WOMEN & LUNG CANCER -The Numbers Are Growing
Lung cancer kills over 160,000 people in the United States each year. A national survey by the National Lung Cancer Partnership found that only a tiny percentage of Americans know the symptoms or have talked to their doctors about their risk for lung cancer. Last summer, The Health Show's Dr. Nina Sax spoke to Dr. Joan Schiller, chief of the division of hematology oncology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and the president of the National Lung Cancer Partnership...about just how common lung cancer has become in women.
Kathryn Joosten - Lung Cancer Survivor
In the previous story, Dr. Schiller acknowledged the low number of lung cancer survivors is one reason there are so few high profile advocates for lung cancer research. We got a chance to talk with one of those advocates last fall. Kathryn Joosten is an Emmy-award winning actress, most famous for her role as Presidential Secretary Dolores Landingham on The West Wing...and more recently as neighbor Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives. Health Show producer Bob Barrett asked her why so few prominent survivors are willing to step forward as advocates.
For more information go to National Lung Cancer Partnership dot com.
No Smoking In The Movies
Smoking on film could soon become a factor in a movie's rating. It'll be R if anti-tobacco activists have anything to say about it. Commentator John Carroll has some thoughts on the topic.
The Threshold Choir
Many cultures have helped dying people in their final step by singing to them...medieval monks chanted, Hindus sang hymns. In America today, the final sounds you might hear are more likely to be heart monitors beeping or ventilators whooshing. But in the past few years singers in California have formed what they call Threshold Choirs. They sing at deathbeds. Threshold singing chapters have sprung up across the U.S., and Canada, Japan, Iceland, and the UK. Recently in Albany, California, one Threshold Choir was invited to sing for Barbara Croisant, a woman suffering complications of multiple sclerosis. Lonny Shavelson was there, and produced this portrait.
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