The latest in Lung Cancer

Lung cancer gene tests not ready: U.S. report

2010-03-16T14:32:38Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Genetic tests designed to predict how well lung cancer patients will fare after treatment do very little to guide doctors, government researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>Their review of studies aiming to show a gene signature for lung tumors found serious problems in the design and analysis of the studies.</p><p>Researchers need some clear guidelines to follow in wh...

New radiation therapy shows promise in lung cancer

2010-03-16T09:45:59Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Aiming powerful beams of radiation precisely at tumors helped control their growth and helped people with early stage but inoperable lung cancer live longer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>They said intensive radiation therapy -- done in one to five treatments instead ...

Pfizer ends study on potential lung cancer drug

2010-03-11T15:30:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Pfizer ends study on potential lung cancer drug, committee says it won't meet treatment goal</div><div><p>Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it discontinued a late-stage study of the drug candidate figitumumab in patients with late-stage lung cancer, citing a lack of effectiveness.</p><p>The company said an independent monitoring committee recommended stopping the study. It concluded that figitumu...

Smoking tied to lung cancer in women with HIV

2010-03-05T13:30:18Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women infected with HIV or at risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, appear more likely to develop lung cancer than women in the general population, possibly because they are much more likely to smoke cigarettes, study findings hint.</p><p>People with HIV have a much higher risk for many cancers. Still, it is unclear whether HIV infection plays a ...

Hormone replacement tied to lung cancer risk

2010-02-24T10:30:27Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who use hormone replacement therapy combining estrogen and progestin may have a higher risk of lung cancer than non-users, a new study finds.</p><p>Whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) itself is to blame is not certain, researchers say. But the findings add to the complicated mix of potential health effects of HRT.</p><p>The study, published in the ...

Occupation a key factor in men's lung cancer risk

2010-02-22T09:23:12Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who work in certain occupations continue to be at increased risk of lung cancer, new research from Italy shows.</p><p>In fact, about 5 percent of lung cancers in men are job-related, Dario Consonni of the IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policli...

Researchers find sex-specific lung cancer genes

2010-02-22T10:28:12Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lung cancer is often dramatically different in women than it is in men, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday in another study that suggests ways to tailor treatment for cancer patients.</p><p>They also found that some elderly patients have forms of lung cancer that make them likely to ben...

Men who eat soy may have lower lung cancer risk

2010-02-22T11:13:37Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who don't smoke and eat a lot of soy may have a lower risk of lung cancer, according to a new study.</p><p>Soy contains isoflavones, which act similarly to the hormone estrogen, and may have anti-cancer qualities in hormone-related cancers of the breast and prostate, the researchers note in the

Smokers with cancer could quit and double survival

2010-02-22T16:49:19Z

<div><p>People with early lung cancer who quit smoking could double their chances of surviving, a new study says.</p><p>Until now, there has been little proof that quitting smoking after developing lung cancer makes any difference to survival.</p><p>British researchers analyzed previous data from 10 studies examining how long smokers survived after being diagnosed with lung cancer.</p><p&...

Quitting smoking after lung cancer diagnosis helps survival

2010-02-22T16:48:57Z

<div><p>Smokers diagnosed with lung cancer should not assume they have been handed a death sentence, as quitting tobacco even at this stage can greatly boost their survival chances, doctors said on Friday.</p><p>Among those smokers who quit swiftly after diagnosis, 63-70 percent were still alive after five years, a benchmark of survival in cancer research, compared with only 29-33 percent among those who continued to smoke, they said in an ...

Classification of Lung Cancer

2010-02-22T20:03:29Z

Most lung cancers are termed ?carcinomas?, which are tumors caused by uncontrolled reproduction of epithelial cells; these are the cells which form the linings and surfaces of most of the bodies organs and internal structures. There are two main types of carcinoma which are classified according to the size and presentation of the cancerous cells.<br><br>After a biopsy has been taken (which removes part of the tissue suspected to be cancerous), a laboratory speciali...

Alternative Lung Cancer Treatment and You

2010-02-23T00:10:30Z

Most of the people around the world die due to cancer, and one common cause that ties them together is lung cancer. The standard age for the diagnosis of this disease is sixty. Cancer can be broadly classified into two types, small cell (or coat cell) lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. The growth of small cell lung cancer is very quick and can easily spread to the other body parts. This kind of lung cancer is most common among the smokers. The non-small cell lung cancer is further di...

Lung cancer: New drug shows promise in lab mice

2010-02-23T11:57:19Z

<div><p>A new category of drug brakes the growth of treatment-resistant lung cancer among lab mice, according to a study published on Thursday in the science journal Nature.</p><p>The new type could add powerfully to a small family of drugs called epidermal growth factor receptor (EPFR) inhibitors, say its finders.</p><p>It tackles muta...

Claiming Compensation For Mesothelioma: Cancer of the Mesothelium

2010-02-23T13:44:24Z

Mesothelioma is a terminal and debilitating illness which almost always results from asbestos exposure. If you are suffering from mesothelioma as a result of someone else?s negligence, you may be entitled to claim compensation on a no win, no fee basis.<br><br>Here is some important information about the asbestos-related form of cancer, mesothelioma, and how to make a claim for compensation if you are suffering from this disease.<br><br>...

Scientists crack gene code of common cancers

2010-02-23T14:58:00Z

<div><p>Two common forms of cancer have been genetically mapped for the first time, British scientists announced, in a major breakthrough in understanding the diseases.</p><p>The maps have exposed the DNA mutations that lead to skin and lung cancers, in a discovery scientists said could transform the way these diseases are diagnosed and treated in coming years.</p><p>All cancers are caused by damage to genes -- m...

Gene maps to transform scientists' work on cancer

2010-02-23T15:10:15Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have indentified all the changes in cells of two deadly cancers to produce the first entire cancer gene maps and say the findings mark a "transforming moment" in their understanding of the disease.</p><p>The studies by international scientists and Britain's Reuters) - Small or slow-growing nodules discovered on a lung scan are unlikely to develop into tumors over the next two years, researchers reported on Wednesday.</p><p>The findings, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, could help doctors decide wh...

Pain drug morphine may accelerate cancer growth

2010-02-24T03:40:51Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Evidence is mounting that morphine, commonly used to manage pain, may accelerate cancer growth, but a newly-approved drug that blocks its side effects could also keep tumors from spreading, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.</p><p>They said the ...

Unproven Remedies Celebrities

2009-10-19T17:00:41Z

FILE - This 1980 file photo shows Steve McQueen in "The Hunter." When conventional medicine failed to halt his mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung lining, McQueen traveled to Mexico, where he was treated with everything from coffee enemas to laetrile, the now debunked remedy involving apricot pits. (AP Photo/File)