Archive for the ‘Lung Cancer’ Category
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Tumor imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) may improve the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of lung cancer patients, according to a review published online November 27 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.Tumor imaging is frequently used in the diagnosis of lung cancer and is important for making treatment ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a useful diagnostic tool that supports the need for more accurate staging of lung cancer and improved treatment for patients, concludes an extensive systematic review published online yesterday in Journal of National Cancer Institute.The review conducted by the Lung Cancer Disease Site Group of Cancer ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Pharsight Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: PHRS), a leading provider of software, strategic consulting, and regulatory services for optimizing clinical drug development, announced that its Strategic Consulting Services Group is using a quantitative disease model developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
November is National Lung Cancer Awareness month and CaringBridge is providing tips to those living with the disease - one that affects more than 210,000 Americans annually. National Lung Cancer Awareness Month is a nationally recognized month that seeks to draw attention to the leading cause of cancerous deaths in ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Human lung-cancer tumors grown in mice have been shown to regress or disappear when treated with a synthetic compound that mimics the action of a naturally occurring "death-promoting" protein found in cells, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report.The findings, appearing in Cancer Cell, suggest that the compound might one ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Chemotherapy given at the same time as radiation therapy can help patients with a certain type of lung cancer live nearly 50 percent longer than they might have otherwise if the same treatment was given differently, according to an international team's analysis of several trial results.Walter Curran Jr., M.D., professor ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
The Health Protection Agency has published a report about the potential health impact and levels of asbestos exposures from large scale fires. Asbestos causes a number of diseases and, in particular, is linked to the development of mesothelioma and lung cancer. The import, supply and use of asbestos was banned ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
This year, as in the past, lung cancer will kill more Americans than any other cancer. In fact, lung cancer will claim more lives than the next four leading cancer killers -- breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancers -- combined. The facts about lung cancer are startling, and few people ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Pharmacists demonstrated that they are an important front line health service resource in the early detection of lung cancer at the launch of Lung Cancer Awareness Month on 1 November, at Tottenham Hotspurs Football Club, White Hart Lane. Lung Cancer Awareness Month is an annual event promoting the message that ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Smoking is a more harmful behavior for women compared to men. This is especially so in regards to the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): an umbrella term of a range of lung disorders, some of which are irreversible. A study in Respirology published by Wiley-Blackwell surveyed ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a novel mechanism to predict survival in older women with early stage lung cancer. The finding may have significant implications for new treatment approaches.For the first time, UCLA researchers linked higher levels of aromatase, an enzyme that naturally makes estrogen from ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
New research suggests that a treatment with a derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid may help cut former smokers' risk of lung cancer as it is suspected that lung cells damaged during years of smoking may continue to grow and evolve into cancer even after that person has ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released a new clinical practice guideline on diagnosing and treating stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a slowly progressive lung disease involving the airways and lung tissue, resulting in a gradual loss of lung function, typically as a result of smoking.COPD affects more ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
You might be one of the millions of Americans who snuffs out their last cigarette on November 15th for the 31st Great American Smokeout. By doing that, you could cut your risk of getting lung cancer. But it might surprise you to know that 1 out of 5 ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Researchers have found that using a special type of drug called a pharmaceutical monoclonal antibody to block the integrin beta6-TGF-beta pathway prevents a serious side effect of radiation therapy for lung cancer patients -- pulmonary fibrosis (scarring of the lungs), thereby extending patients' lives and improving their quality of life, ...
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