How can we better diagnose and treat pulmonary fibrosis?
The American Federation for Aging Research; the American Pain Foundation; the Black Women's Health Imperative; the Brain Injury Association of America; the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis; the Colon Cancer Alliance; the Emergency Coalition to Save Cancer Imaging; the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association; the Kidney Cancer Association; the Lung Cancer Alliance; Patient Advocates for Advanced Cancer Treatment; SemiColon; the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association; and YES! Beat Liver Tumors hold a rally 'calling on the administration and Congress to reject measures that will devastate Medicare patient access to diagnostic imaging services, and hit rural communities the hardest' on October 14, 2009 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Pulmonary fibrosis is a mysterious and debilitating disease that causes scar tissue to replace healthy lung tissue. Unable to breathe properly, sufferers are deprived of oxygen and die within three to five years of diagnosis. More than 40,000 people succumb to the disease each year, yet there is no FDA-approved treatment or cure. Longtime KPCC friend and prominent Pasadena resident Bob ORourke is determined to change that. Recently diagnosed, the former Cal Tech public relations executive shares his personal struggle with pulmonary fibrosis in an effort to bring awarness to a disease that takes as many lives in the U.S. each year as breast cancer. What are the seemingly innocuous symptoms? Who should get checked out? Will the drug pirfenidone, approved for treatment in Japan, be fast-tracked by the FDA?
Guest:
Bob O’Rourke, Senior Advisor to the President for External Affairs
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Interim CEO of Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena.
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