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Published: December 26, 2007
Treatment may help clear air
By Jeff Raymond
TULSA — A Tulsa doctor may have developed a technique to help lung cancer patients who have trouble breathing because tumors block the bronchioles, which are the passages through which they receive air.

Sufferers may experience fits of coughing, shortness of breath and difficult-to-treat pneumonia.

Dr. Daniel Nader , a pulmonologist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, injects a small amount of...

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