Experts from the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, have recently announced that they are working on a new electronic nose that will have the ability to detect early signs of lung cancer, before the disease advances far enough to show up on conventional viewing methods such as X-rays and MRI. Relying on the po... |
31 August 2009
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Scientists from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine have recently announced the successful use of a new, small peptide to efficiently stop the growth of lung cancer tumor cells. Their paper also reveals that the small molecule also had the strength of setting the tumor into remission, reducing its size cons... |
27 August 2009
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Leading European experts have recently made it clear that fighting lung cancer, in all its forms, as well as preventing it, may be made a lot easier if physicians, surgeons, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists learned to cooperate a lot better and more efficiently share test results. Prevention programs and... |
27 April 2009
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New scientific studies, conducted on a mouse model, reveal that common food additives can speed the expression of lung cancer and even trigger the terrible disease in people predisposed to contracting it. The finds, published in the January issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory... |
29 December 2008
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Routinely removing cancerous tumors from the lungs helps some surgeons obtain very good results with the procedure over time. They manage to anticipate most of what could go wrong and learn from past mistakes, so as to get better at what they do. On the other hand, surgeons who do not perform that many operations per... |
24 October 2008
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According to an official National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) study published Sunday, October 5, lung cancer, the deadliest form of cancer out there and the number one cause for cancer-related deaths worldwide, receives the lowest levels of funding of all types. Esophageal and pancreatic cancers, which also have... |
6 October 2008
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A new type of radioactive isotopes may hold the key to tomorrow's lung cancer cures, says a team of scientists at the Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) in Pittsburgh, U.S. They have tested the new mesh of substances extensively over the past few years, and have come up with very encouraging results. While standar... |
30 September 2008
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