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Risk of Lung Cancer Death Has Risen Dramatically Among Women Smokers in Recent Decades
January 23, 2013 — Female smokers have a much greater risk of death from lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease in recent years than did female smokers 20 or 40 years ago, reflecting changes in smoking ... > full story -
Smoking Cessation More Successful for Cancer Patients Who Quit Before Surgery
January 23, 2013 — Lung and head and neck cancer patients who smoked before surgery are more likely to relapse than those who had quit before surgery, researchers say. They found that smoking-relapse prevention ... > full story -
Rice-Cell Cocktail Tough on Cancer Cells, Nice to Normal Cells
January 22, 2013 — In lab tests, juice from rice cells knocked out two kinds of human cancer cells as well or better than the potent anti-cancer drug Taxol. Plus, it did something extra: it left normal cells ... > full story -
Cancer Mortality Down 20 Percent from 1991 Peak
January 17, 2013 — An annual report from the American Cancer Society finds as of 2009, the overall death rate for cancer in the United States had declined 20 percent from its peak in 1991, translating to the avoidance ... > full story -
Body's Ibuprofen, Sparc, Reduces Inflammation and Thus Bladder Cancer Development and Metastasis
January 17, 2013 — Cancer researchers are increasingly aware that in addition to genetic mutations in a cancer itself, characteristics of the surrounding tissue can promote or suppress tumor growth. One of these ... > full story -
Lung Cancer: Comparable Patterns of Failure Between SBRT, Lobectomy or Pneumonectomy for Stage I NSCLC
January 15, 2013 — For patients with medically operable clinical stage I non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), lobectomy or pneumonectomy is the standard approach. For patients with medically inoperable stage I ... > full story -
Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer If They Use Beta-Blockers While Receiving Radiotherapy
January 8, 2013 — Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer survive longer if they are taking beta-blockers while receiving radiotherapy, according to a new ... > full story -
New Marker of Drug Response May Speed Pace of Lung Cancer Prevention Trials
January 8, 2013 — Testing medicines to prevent lung cancer requires treating many thousands of high-risk individuals and then waiting five, 10 or 15 years to discover which of them develop cancer and which, if any, ... > full story -
Tumor Boards Linked to Little Association With Effects on Cancer Care
December 28, 2012 — There is little association of multidisciplinary tumor boards with measures of use, quality, or survival, and measuring only the presence of tumor boards may not be adequate in determining their ... > full story -
Why and How Patients With Lung Cancer Initially Get Diagnosed With the Disease
December 21, 2012 — An oncologist has used the electronic medical records data of more than 400 patients in a single-center study that is further exploring results from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) released ... > full story
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