LungBlog

Mary Dawkins handled something as terrifying as being diagnosed with lung cancer with the kind of quiet strength you don’t find too often.After her diagnosis, she began crocheting caps - hundreds of caps, all kinds of colors, all kinds of designs - to give to local chemo patients. She was driven by her own experience of losing her hair during chemo.

A colour sensor breath test could detect lung cancer even in its earliest stages, researchers claim today.

Due to cancer’s silent nature it is difficult to diagnose the disease at a stage when it can be effectively treated.

AstraZeneca today announced the commencement of a new Phase III study of its new investigational once-daily orally administered drug, vandetanib (ZACTIMA(R), ZD6474). Study 36 will investigate the addition of vandetanib to pemetrexed (Alimta(R)) as second line treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after failure of first line anti-cancer treatment. Study 36 will be conducted across 20 countries worldwide, including 20 sites in the United States, and is expected to enroll at least 508 patients, with the first patient entering the trial in January 2007.

Women greatly outnumber men in most nursing homes and senior centers on Staten Island for one simple reason: Women live longer.Experts have struggled to explain why that is, but state Health Department statistics illuminate one factor that may play a big role. It’s lung cancer, which kills more borough men than women.

Humphreys County has some of the state’s highest rates for lung and breast cancers, data shows.

But it would take some scientific sleuthing to determine whether dioxins have anything to do with it, a researcher said.

Smoking isn’t the only cause for lung cancer. In fact, more nonsmokers are now being diagnosed with the dreaded disease than in the past.

Roche announced today that it is temporarily suspending recruitment into its Phase II dose-finding study (NH19960) with the investigational drug C.E.R.A. in anaemic patients with advanced non small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy.

Although lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the Sandhills, FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital has been very successful in treating nonsmall cell lung cancer.

A former electrician developed lung cancer after exposure to asbestos.