Archive for the ‘Lung Cancer’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that oral Hycamtin® (topotecan hard capsules) have received approval from the European Commission for the treatment of relapsed SCLC. Specifically, topotecan hard capsules are indicated as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed SCLC (PS0-2 [*]) [1] for whom re-treatment with the first-line regimen ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
UCB announces first results of its phase II exploratory study of CDP791, a specific VEGFR-2/KDR inhibitor, in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel chemotherapy in first line non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Positive improvements were observed on several efficacy endpoints including tumour response rate and time to tumour progression. The ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Exposure to levels of radon gas typically found in 90 percent of American homes appears to reduce the risk of developing lung cancer by as much as 60 percent, according to a study published in the March 2008 issue of the journal Health Physics. The finding differs significantly from the ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
A new report from the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain & Ireland (published by Dendrite Clinical Systems), has for the first time recorded the variations in activity and surgical approaches between thoracic surgical units in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Presented at the recent Annual Meeting of the ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
National Lung Cancer Partnership is pleased to announce that Adam Marcus, Ph.D., of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University is the winner of the organization's 2007 Career Development Award.The Career Development Award, in the amount of $80,000, provides two years of protected time for newly independent investigators to develop ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
According to a study published by BMJ, smokers whowere told their lung age were significantly more likely to quit thanthose who did not receive the information.Usually, when patients go to the doctor to have their lungs checked,they receive complex lung data. The idea of a lung age was developed tohelp ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Every year 4000 people die of asbestos which is more than those in road traffic accidents. In Great Britain we are in the middle of an epidemic and it is expected that asbestos deaths will to peak to nearly 5000 which is a legacy from years gone by. As part ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Smoking plays a role in lung cancer development and now scientists have shown that smoking also affects the way genes are expressed, leading to alterations in cell division and regulation of immune response. Notably, some of the changes in gene expression persisted in people who had quit smoking many years ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) cautioned that recently released cancer statistics indicate that lung cancer continues to kill more people each year than all the other major cancers combined. Last week, in issuing its annual review of government statistics entitled Cancer Facts and Figures for 2008, ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Boehringer Ingelheim's investigational cancer treatment BIBW 2992 has recently received a Fast Track Designation status by the FDA. Under this designation, Boehringer Ingelheim will conduct a pivotal trial programme studying BIBW 2992 in a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient group where prior treatment with reversible EGFR inhibitors has failed.The ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) called the new screening guidelines announced by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) "a positive step in the right direction that will encourage those at high risk for lung cancer to fully investigate their option of getting a CT scan." LCA President ...
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
Workers at a plant that processed vermiculite with asbestos-like fibershave scarring and thickening of the membrane that lines the chestwalls, 25 years after the plant stopped using the material. In a studypublished in the American Journal of Respiratory and CriticalCare Medicine, researchers show similar results even forworkers who were exposed ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Researchers in France and the US have concluded that for youngerpatients in the final stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD), survival is lengthened by transplanting both lungs compared toonly one lung. The study, performed by Dr Gabriel Thabut, Service dePneumologie B et transplantation pulmonaire, H?pital Bichat, Paris,France, and colleagues, is ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
A recent study published in the American Thoracic Society's AmericanJournal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reportsthat vitamin supplements do not protect against lung cancer, and may infact increase the risk of developing it.Dr. ChristopherG. Slatore of the University of Washington and colleagues performed theanalysis by selecting a prospective cohort ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Everyone has known for decades that smoking causes cancer, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke causes lung cancer. This finding may help the tobacco industry ...
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