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Opera great Luciano Pavarotti hospitalized

Posted Aug 13th 2007 7:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Chemotherapy, Pancreatic Cancer, Celebrity news

Italian opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, hospitalized on Wednesday with a fever, is doing better and should be discharged within the next few days, according to his wife, Nicoletta Mantovani.

The 71-year-old tenor underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer one year ago and has since endured at least five rounds of chemotherapy. Although not confirmed, some sources say Pavarotti has pneumonia.

Cancer by the Numbers: Lung Cancer

Posted Nov 1st 2006 10:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Lung Cancer, Cancer by the Numbers

In 2006, 174,470 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States. About 92,700 men and 81,770 women will develop the disease -- the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women.

An estimated 162,460 men and women will die of lung cancer this year, accounting for 28 percent of all cancer deaths and taking more lives than colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. While most people diagnosed with lung cancer will die within the first two years of diagnosis -- this has not changed in 10 years -- some people are cured. There are currently about 333,000 long-term survivors.

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