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Lung Cancer Alliance Issues Statement On FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill
POSTED: June 26, 2009Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed the U.S. Senate version of the FDA tobacco regulation bill with a 307-97 vote -- an emphatic exclamation point for the successful conclusion of a decade long battle. The final stop is the President's desk and a signing ceremony is expected to be held next week. Lung Cancer Alliance P...
Clarient Launches New Gene Mutation Test To Help Select Therapy For Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
POSTED: June 26, 2009Clarient, Inc., a premier anatomic pathology and molecular testing services resource for pathologists, oncologists, and the pharmaceutical industry, announced the launch of a new gene mutation test that can help physicians select the proper therapy for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The test, called epidermal growth factor receptor (E...
Lung Cancer Alliance Hails Signing Of Tobacco Control Legislation Into Law; Urges Action On Lung Cancer
POSTED: June 23, 2009WASHINGTON -- Landmark legislation giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate tobacco products was signed into law at a White House ceremony today. The federal government can now regulate the amount of nicotine in tobacco products, ban flavorful additives, require every chemical ingredient to be detailed on the label ...
Women Underrepresented In Most Cancer Research
POSTED: June 21, 2009Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that greater efforts are needed to ensure that oncologists know the true effects of treatments and medical procedures in female patie...
Defeating Nicotine's Double Role In Lung Cancer
POSTED: June 21, 2009A lung cancer treatment that inhibits nicotine receptors was shown to double survival time in mice, according to Italian researchers. The results of the early phase animal model study were reported in the June 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Changes in genes encoding nicotine receptors are strongly assoc...
Lung Cancer Alliance Issues Statement On FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill
POSTED: June 13, 2009WASHINGTON -- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed the U.S. Senate version of the FDA tobacco regulation bill with a 307-97 vote -- an emphatic exclamation point for the successful conclusion of a decade long battle. The final stop is the President's desk and a signing ceremony is expected to be held next week. ...
Brain Irradiation In Lung Cancer
POSTED: June 13, 2009A national Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study led by a Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center physician at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee has found that a course of radiation therapy to the brain after treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer reduced the risk of metastases to the brain within the first year after treatme...
Test Developed For Measuring Lung Cancer Risk
POSTED: June 9, 2009New Zealand researchers said Tuesday they have developed the world's first test to measure the risk for individual smokers and ex-smokers of developing lung cancer. The test combines results of DNA analysis with other risk factors such as age, diseases such as bronchitis and emphysema and family lung cancer history, said University of Auckland associ...
National Early Lung Cancer Detection Study Finds Nine Cancers In Six Months
POSTED: June 9, 2009VANCOUVER -- In six months, nine Canadians have been diagnosed with lung cancer while participating in a Terry Fox Research Institute study for the early detection of lung cancer. The study is funded in partnership with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. The diagnosed participants live in Halifax, Quebec City, Hamilton and Vancouver and...
Heaviest Smokers Face Greatest Risk Of Death After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
POSTED: June 8, 2009MORGANTOWN, W.V. -- It's common knowledge that smoking raises risks of lung cancer. And yet researchers haven't known whether continued smoking by lung cancer patients would increase the risk of the cancer's spread. Researchers at West Virginia University - studying the relationship between death rates from lung cancer and how much a person s...
