UCB SA. said it considering finding a partner for the development of its lung cancer drug CDP791 and reported ‘positive’ trends from second phase clinical trials.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) — an interventional treatment that “cooks” and kills lung cancer tumors with heat — greatly improves survival time from primary or metastatic inoperable lung tumors, according to a study released at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting

As his wife received treatment for lung cancer Monday at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institute, Jerome Williams, 64, slipped outside for a few moments.For a cigarette.

But Williams was one of the last to do so. Starting today, Moffitt goes smoke-free. Cigarettes will be banned not only from inside the hospital, but from the hospital’s entire campus.

Differences between the prescribed dose of radiation in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and the dose that’s actually delivered may make comparison studies in lung cancer difficult to interpret. These findings were reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Just when it looked like there was no new way to raise money for charity, somebody came up with the idea of climbing the stairs in a skyscraper.

And that’s what a lot of very slinky and sweaty people did on Saturday in San Francisco.

More than 1,000 do-gooders showed up at the ground floor of the old Bank of America building in their thinnest jogging shorts to tackle the 1,197 stairs between California Street and the top floor.

You can’t see, smell or taste radon.

Last December, Yang Chen, MD, dismissed an aching pain under his shoulder as muscle strain. Five weeks later, as the pain persisted, a chest x-ray brought shocking results: possible lung cancer that might have spread.

A highly acclaimed specialist and medical professor at the University of Colorado Denver, Yang knew the average survival rate for his condition could be under 18 months. He didn’t smoke and had no family history of cancer. He was stunned. His life changed in an instant.

Since 1950, women’s deaths from lung cancer have increased 600 percent. This year more women will die from lung cancer than breast cancer.

This week, the country’s only clinical research group for cancer revealed that Irish patients would become the first in the world to gain access to a cutting-edge drug for lung cancer that is so new its name cannot be revealed.

A charity based organisation of Irish doctors, ICORG (the All-Ireland Cooperative Oncology Research Group), whose members include 95pc of the country’s cancer specialists, will begin giving the drug to patients of the disease in the coming months as part of the first clinical trials on a specific form of lung cancer in the world.

The drug, known as a HDAC inhibitor, has shown dramatic results in treating a rare type of lymphoma but recent studies have found it is also powerful in attacking lung cancer cells.

Climb California will again see a unique group of participants,” said a news release about the event, which benefits the American Lung Association – “from families climbing with babies on their backs; to teams of firefighters climbing in memory of their fallen comrades; to a participant so committed that he’s climbing in a walking cast … .”The statement also said that lung disease is on the rise, especially lung cancer and asthma. A reported 30 percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked.