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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 -
COPD Is Not Independent Risk Factor for Lung Cancer, Study Concludes
December 15, 2012 — A recent study concludes that COPD is not an independent risk factor for lung ... > full story -
Opiates Already in Body May Encourage Cancer Growth, Certain Medications Could Slow It
December 12, 2012 — A new study has shown that, even without the addition of further opioids such as morphine, opioids already in the body can enhance the malignant tendencies of human cancer ... > full story -
The Current State of Lung Cancer Treatment
December 11, 2012 — A new review outlines the current state of lung cancer treatment. It points out that in the lung cancer varieties whose driver oncogenes can be matched with targeted therapy, tend to give a 70-80 ... > full story -
Lung Cancer Patients With Pockets of Resistance Prolong Disease Control by 'Weeding the Garden'
December 1, 2012 — This study of 65 patients showed that continuing either crizotinib or erlotinib after the treatment of resistant pockets with focused radiation ("weeding the garden") was associated with more than ... > full story -
Gene Involved in Lung Tumor Growth Identified
November 29, 2012 — Lung cancer researchers have identified a gene that plays a role in the growth and spread of non-small cell lung cancer tumors, opening the door for potential new treatment ... > full story -
First Success of Targeted Therapy in Most Common Genetic Subtype of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
November 28, 2012 — Chemotherapy and a new, targeted therapy work better in combination than chemotherapy alone in treating patients with the most common genetic subtype of lung cancer, new research ... > full story -
Old Habits Die Hard: Helping Cancer Patients Stop Smoking
November 26, 2012 — It's a sad but familiar scene near the grounds of many medical campuses: hospital-gowned patients, some toting rolling IV poles, huddled in clumps under bus shelters or warming areas, smoking ... > full story
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