CentraState - Healthy Directions

3 Faces of Lung Cancer According to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 205,974 people in Treating the Whole Person The Comprehensive Lung Program at CentraState Medical Center offers advanced services, expertise and technology for diagnosing, treating and helping patients recover from lung cancer. Because CentraState's focus is on the whole person, not simply the disease, we also offer guidance on maintaining lung health and complementary therapies to support self-healing and emotional well-being, while patients maximize the benefits of conventional treatment. Our multidisciplinary, integrated approach ensures that patients and their families experience continuity of care and the convenience of finding everything under one roof—in the friendly, attentive environment of a community-based medical center. , The Lung Program at CentraState Medical Center, in conjunction with Freehold Radiology Group, is now offering free, low-dose CT screenings, using a state of the art 64-slice CT scanner, for those individuals considered at high risk for developing lung cancer. Participants will be screened once a year for three years. To receive the free CT scans, participants must: · Be a current or former smoker age 55 to 74. · Have smoked for 30 pack years or more (1 pack a day for 30 years, 2 packs a day for 15 years, etc.). · Still be smoking or have quit in the past 15 years. CT scans have an advantage over chest X-rays for lung cancer screening because they can detect cancer at its earliest stages, including tumors that are only 1 centimeter. Early detection of lung cancer can increase the five-year survivorship rate by 20 percent. For more information and to determine your eligibility, please contact nurse navigator, Sharon Lorfing, at (732) 637-6365. 4 Summer 2013 the United States were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009. The common symptoms of lung cancer may include chest pain, coughing up blood, shortness of breath and persistent, long-term cough. However, the following three stories illustrate that sometimes it will be something completely different that leads to a lung cancer diagnosis, as a thorough test for a problematic symptom in one part of the body may lead to a startling finding. CLAUDIA GOODMAN In 2007 Claudia Goodman of Marlboro had pain in her kidney area so she , went to her primary care physician, Maher Youssef, MD, board certified in internal medicine and on staff at CentraState Medical Center. Dr. Youssef wasn't sure what was causing her kidney pain, so he sent her for a CT scan, which revealed a tumor in her lung. After a lung resection and 12 weeks of chemotherapy treatments, Claudia's oncologist, Jeffrey Silberberg, MD, board certified in internal medicine and hematology/oncology and on staff at CentraState, told Claudia there was no longer any evidence of cancer, but that she needed to faithfully schedule follow-up testing to make sure the cancer didn't return. In 2012, Claudia and her husband, Frank, escaped the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy with a two-week vacation to Puerto Vallarta. Prior to leaving for vacation, Claudia had one of her routine checkups, including a CT scan. The CT scan showed some Two-time cancer survivor Claudia Goodman. Healthy Directions

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