Archive for the ‘Lung Cancer’ Category
Friday, October 19th, 2007
While the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) came out last week in opposition to CT screening for lung cancer, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) reiterated its support for the screening test which can detect lung cancer at its earliest most treatable stage for those at high risk. ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
The NPA is working with The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and Macmillan Cancer Support to promote November's Lung Cancer Awareness Month through community pharmacy.NPA members will receive with their October InTouch (the NPA's member magazine) an A4 'Lung Cancer Awareness' poster for pharmacists to display in their shops. The ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
New evidenced-based guidelines from the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) recommend against the use of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for the general screening of lung cancer. Published as a supplement to the September issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the ACCP, the guidelines cite there is little evidence ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Heavy smokers are susceptible to a type of lung cancer that is hard to treat - arthritis of the knee could be the first sign of this type of cancer, according to a report published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.In the study, the researchers looked at the case ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Diverse Communities throughout the United States continue to be disproportionately affected by specific lung diseases such as asthma, tuberculosis, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and/or have more risk factors such as genetic predisposition, poor living conditions, and unequal access to healthcare and medications, according to the American ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Alfacell Corporation (Nasdaq: ACEL) announced that a paper published in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (2007; 599: 53-60) reports that ONCONASE significantly enhances the effect of the radiation response in human non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in vitro and in vivo. ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
In a grassroots effort that has grown by 5,000% in four years, more than 10,000 individuals over 30 days across 12 states will be striding toward a cure for lung cancer this Fall. Benefiting LUNGevity Foundation, these 20,000 feet are walking and running to raise money for innovative ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
In the August 7, 2007, issue of PLoS One, researchers show how a poorly understood and previously unsuspected mechanism may be the key to understanding how life-style associated forms of oxidative stress, such as exposure to cigarette smoke, damage cells in the lungs.Toxins in cigarette smoke, they show, open unpaired ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Late in session last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously reconfirmed its commitment to making lung cancer research a national public health priority. Laurie Fenton-Ambrose, president of the Lung Cancer Alliance, thanked Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) for their leadership on the resolution which reinforces ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Today's passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) is truly historic. This legislation will give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority it needs to regulate the products responsible for more than 438,000 deaths ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Traditionally, PET, or positron emission tomography, has been used after radiation treatment for lung cancer to assess whether the tumor responded to treatment and whether the patients will have a chance of being cured. Using PET several weeks into treatment, researchers found a strong correlation between tumor responses during treatment ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Combining pre-operative chemotherapy and surgery increases the average chance of survival at five years by approximately 6% compared with surgery alone.This conclusion was drawn by a team of Cochrane Researchers from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit in London after they identified 12 eligible randomised controlled trials. Data from seven of ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Lung Cancer Survival Better in Nonsmokers Never-smokers with early stage lung cancer have significantly better survival than smokers with the disease. Researchers from the University of Alabama compared survival rates among 562 smokers and 168 never-smokers, all of whom had non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The overall 5-year survival ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Want to help people quit smoking? Get a national TV network to publicize your toll-free number. That is the message of a new study that found calls to a national smoking-cessation hotline more than tripled in the wake of news anchor Peter Jennings' death from lung cancer. "It's not enough ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Major U.S. academic medical centers can successfully - and safely - integrate minimally invasive lung surgery into their training programs with a standardized, step-by-step plan, according to University of Cincinnati (UC) thoracic surgeons.It's estimated that only about 10 percent of all lung cancer operations nationwide are done with minimally invasive ...
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