LungBlog

More than 213,000 new cases of lung cancer will be diagnosed in the US this year alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more people die from lung cancer than any other type. That’s true for both men and women.

In 2004, lung cancer accounted for more deaths than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. Doctors at St. Joseph’s/Candler tell us the procedure to discover whether you have the disease can be painful, but a new technique is changing that.

It’s long been known that smoking is one of the causes for lung cancer, but a new study is the first to show that the hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke is what actually causes healthy lung cells to turn cancerous.

Years of popping vitamins offer no protection from lung cancer, and taking vitamin E at high doses for a long time may even elevate the risk, according to a new study led by researchers in Seattle.

Biothera‘s Imprime PGGâ„¢ increased the effectiveness of Avastin^® (bevacizumab), a monoclonal antibody approved for the treatment of metastatic colorectal, breast and non-small cell lung cancer, according to a new preclinical study published in the current issue of Clinical Cancer Research.

A protein that helps lung cancer cells thrive appears to do so by blocking healthy cells’ ability to fix themselves when radiation or chemicals such as nicotine damage their DNA, according to a University of Florida study to be published Friday (Feb. 29) in the journal Molecular Cell.High levels of the protein, known as Bc12, are found in the cells of lung cancer patients who smoke.

Previous UF research has shown that nicotine activates the protein, which helps tumor cells live long past their natural lifespan and resist chemotherapy. The new findings explain how the protein enables cancer cells to circumvent the body’s own efforts to change them back into healthy cells — or evade treatments designed to kill them.

It’s the secret nightmare of every cancer survivor — will the disease come back?

Red Wings broadcaster Mickey Redmond is living that situation right now, working on recovering from another incidence of lung cancer.

AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical group, has stopped a trial of an experimental medicine to treat lung cancer amid safety concerns.

Recentin, a drug that aims to starve tumours by cutting off their blood supply, was being tested for non-small cell lung cancer – the most common form of lung cancer – in a trial in Canada.

Frederick Memorial Hospital launched its $6 million CyberKnife cancer center this week, treating its first patient for lung cancer on Tuesday.

Scientists and an oncologist have raised concerns that thousands of people are at risk of developing lung cancer from silica dust from expanding quarries in the south-east Queensland shire.

Pam says, “He suffered dearly and I don’t want any of these men or women to suffer like he has, this cancer is a terrible, terrible cancer.”
  
Teddy is not alone.
  
Firefighter Russell Reese also died of Esophogial Cancer.
  
David Jordan, who never smoked a day in his life, died from Lung Cancer.
  
Firefighter Chuck Lewis also died, as did an employee of the warehouse who helped firefighters out that day.
  
They all had cancer.