LungBlog

Launching a new campaign to mark Lung Cancer Awareness Month today, the Irish Cancer Society said research had found that cigarettes pose a greater risk of lung cancer in women than in men.

Treatment with a derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid may help to cut former smokers’ risk of lung cancer, research suggests.

Quality of life is the most important predictor of survival for patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer, U.S. researchers report.

Reporting in the Nov. 7 issue of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers explained that the virus, Seneca Valley Virus-001 (SVV-001), was effective in treating lines of cells from small-cell lung cancer and some pediatric cancers, as well as lung cancer and eye cancer in immune-deficient mice.

Co announces that Intae Lee with the University of Pennsylvania has reported that Alfacell’s Onconase could be a promising radiation sensitizer for lung cancer treatment. Lee presented the pre- clinical in vivo data at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 49th Annual Meeting. Lee provided pre-clinical evidence that Onconase significantly increased the radiation-induced tumor growth delay of lung tumors in vivo without increases in skin reaction compared to radiation alone.

Pfizer is currently investigating PF-3512676 in combination with non-cytotoxic anti-cancer agents. A Phase II clinical trial evaluating PF-3512676 in combination with Tarceva(R) for the treatment of refractory non-small cell lung cancer, and a Phase I clinical trial evaluating PF-3512676 in combination with Pfizer’s anti-CTLA4 antibody, tremelimumab, for the treatment of advanced melanoma are both underway. Pfizer is currently planning additional clinical trials with PF-3512676 to evaluate its safety and potential efficacy in other cancer indications.

Early screening for lung cancer using non-invasive, low-dose CT scanning detects early stage cancers long before symptoms ever appear

Country star Porter Wagoner, 80, died tonight at 8:25 at Alive Hospice in Nashville after being diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this month.

For decades scientists believed no life could exist in one of the most toxic places in the nation, the Berkeley Pit. But that position changed when two Butte researchers discovered microbes that could treat cancer.

New advancements in a radiation oncology treatment called IMRT (intensity modulated radiation therapy) are far superior to standard radiation procedures in safeguarding the healthy tissues near cancerous tumors, thus improving patient care.