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Lung Cancer Mortality Highest in Black Persons Living in Most Segregated...
According to a report, lung cancer mortality appears to be higher in black persons and highest in blacks living in the most segregated counties in the United States, regardless of socioeconomic...
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Pills for Prolonging Life in Lung Cancer Patients
bA new tablet doubles the life expectancy in females with lung cancer and is regarded as the 'most exciting types of treatments' so far./b The pill, crizotinib, is known to act on a specific cancer...
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Metformin Holds Promise for Treating Lung Cancer
Metformin - a drug designed to treat diabetes could hold promise for treating lung cancer, say researchers. In a new study, a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has found...
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Spread of Lung Cancer Promoted by RNA
Research has shown that approximately 80 percent of our DNA does not code for proteins, but it still gets transcribed into RNA. These RNA molecules are called non-coding and fulfill multiple tasks in...
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Wide International Variation in Lung Cancer Survival Partially Explained by...
Results of a large scale study, published in the online edition of Thorax, involving nearly 60,000 patients found that the stage at diagnosis does not fully explain the wide variation in lung cancer...
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Researchers Find Correlation Between Cigarette Smoke-induced MicroRNA...
Correlations between cigarette smoke-induced microRNA (miRNA) expression and different aspects of lung cancer were identified in recent studies. However, it is unclear how miRNA expression directly...
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Lung Cancer Screening Could Save 12,000 Deaths Every Year in the US
A new study published in the journal Cancer reveals that around 12,000 deaths caused by lung cancer could be avoided every year in the United States by screening for the disease with the help of...
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Soy Consumption Improves Lung Cancer Survival in Women
Chinese women who consumed more soy foods before the diagnosis of lung cancer lived longer compared to those who consumed less soy, says study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology. Quote for...
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Researchers Use Algorithm Similar to Google PageRank to Analyze the Spread...
In helping map how lung cancer spreads in the human body, the same sort of mathematical model used to predict which websites people are most apt to visit is now showing promise. This is according to a...
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New Drug to Treat Lung Cancer in Patients
A new drug that impairs the function of cancer-driving proteins may prove to be a new treatment for patients with lung cancer. The drug, ganetespib, may also be effective for treating patients who...
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New Drug Options to Target Genetic Vulnerability of Lung Cancer
A vulnerability of certain lung cancer cells that can be exploited for new therapies has been identified by physician-researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Although researchers have long...
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Bilirubin Levels Predict Lung Cancer Risk
Smokers with low bilirubin levels are at a higher risk for lung cancer incidence and mortality compared to those who had highest bilirubin levels, finds study. "Although it was expected that bilirubin...
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HPV may also Trigger Lung Cancer
A new research now suggests that a common virus, already known to cause cervical, head and neck cancers may also trigger lung cancer in some cases. Examining tissue samples from lung cancer patients,...
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Increase in Lung Cancer Risk Post Exposure to Asbestos, Asbestosis and Smoking
The risk of lung cancer increases drastically with asbestos exposure, asbestosis and smoking, and cessation of smoking post asbestos exposure can cut down its risk significantly. "The interactions...
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Lung Cancer Could Be Treated Using Icy Therapy Spot
According to the first prospective multicenter trial of cryoablation, frozen balls of ice can safely kill cancerous tumors that have spread to the lungs. The results are being presented at the Society...
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Low Testosterone in 84 Percent of Lung Cancer Patients Taking Crizotinib,...
A recent study by the University of Colorado Cancer Center reported the common side effect of low testosterone in men treated with the recently approved lung cancer agent, crizotinib. A new study...
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Primary Care Provider Density Might Influence Lung Cancer Mortality Rates
It is common knowledge that lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. It is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United...
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Lung Cancer Patients Who Carry Specific HER2 Mutations may Benefit from...
New study suggest that anti-HER2 treatments, like the widely used breast cancer agent trastuzumab (Herceptin), have anti-cancer effects in a small subset of patients with advanced non-small cell lung...
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Research Highlights Racial Disparities in the Surgical Management of...
A new study has indicated that the surgical management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in U.S. hospitals varies widely depending on the race of the patient. "In most patients, the initial...
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Use of Digital Chest Tomosynthesis in Early Detection of Lung Cancer are...
Most of the lung cancers are detected when the patients become symptomatic and have late-stage disease. However, computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer has been reported to reduce lung...
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