Dr. Jorge Gomez-Vazquez is a family medicine doctor in Laredo, Texas and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Doctors Hospital of Laredo and Laredo Medical Center. He received ...
Suicide Risk Quadruples After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Dr. Jorge Gomez, assistant professor of medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, said similar studies have found that the risk of suicide is higher in the beginning of cancer treatment, betw...
Lung Cancer Screening Program Finds A Lot That's Not Cancer
Dr. Jorge Gomez, a spokesman for the American Lung Association and an oncologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, says that while screening low-risk people doesn't make sense on a population basis, ...
Treatment combo nearly doubles survival time in lung cancer patients, study finds
However, the risk of one side effect, acute kidney injury, was higher for combination treated patients: 5.2% vs. 0.5%. Dr. Jorge Gomez, a volunteer spokesperson for the American Lung Association and a ...
Cancer prevention in Latin America also serves us here
Dr. Jorge Gomez, a Concordia-hosted roundtable discussion on cancer prevention, screening and early detection in Latin America. Gomez, who spent more than two decades in senior scientific and administ...
What Real-Life Doctors Say About 'Mad Men's' Shocking Cancer Diagnosis
To find out, we emailed Jorge Gomez, MD, assistant professor of medicine ... What percentage of lung cancer cases are smokers vs non-smokers? Dr. Gomez: “Approximately 80% of patients with lung cancer ...
Centro: American Lung Association & Ad Council Launch Campaign En Español
On this edition of Centro, we give you the details about this special campaign. WBZ’s Yadires Nova-Salcedo talks via satellite with volunteer oncologist for the American Lung Association Dr. Jorge Gom...
What to Know About the CIMAvax Lung Cancer Vaccine
Their studies showed that the vaccine was well-tolerated and that some patients seemed to do better after receiving it, says Dr. Jorge Gomez, an assistant professor of medicine, hematology and medical ...
Quitting Smoking After a Lung Cancer Diagnosis: Is It Too Late?
“If you continue to smoke, you may have another cancer,” says Jorge Gomez, MD, a lung oncologist at Mount ... and tobacco may interfere with some of the targeted therapies,” says Dr. Gomez. Continuing ...
Getting an Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Diagnosis: What You Need to Know
“Many patients don’t have a lot of information about lung cancer,” says Jorge Gomez, MD, a lung oncologist at Mount ... with either localized or locally advanced disease,” says Dr. Gomez. A stage III ...