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Smokers and passive smokers have an equal chance of contracting fatal diseases caused by smoking, claimed Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) President Dr Masood Sheikh.

He told Daily Times on Sunday that, “There is no difference between smoking and passive smoking. A smoker is at risk. However, a non-smoker who inhales the smoke exhaled by a smoker is at equal risk. This poses a serious issue.”

Joseph B. Bolen, Ph.D., CSO of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, will chair the Focus on Cancer track IBC
Life Sciences Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics Conference and Exhibition taking place August 4-7 at the World Trade Center Boston & Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA. The cancer track presentations will focus on therapies for Hematology, Lung Cancer, Blood Borne Cancers, and Clinical Biomarkers.

Richmond Police Department recently lost one of its most important furry employees.

Rico, a six-year-old drug-sniffing K-9 dog, was euthanized June 17 after an inexplicable lung cancer diagnosis.

RPD officer Jamie Mastriano said he spent four years with the Belgian malinois dog as his partner.

But the drug would not stay in the body for very long and required continual infusions.  It also affected the patients’ brain causing dizziness, depression, and other side-effects.  Takeda Chemical Industries dropped it.

Efforts to improve the drug were unsuccessful until Benny tried using nanotechnology and attached two polymers to TNP-470 to protect it from stomach acid.

The altered drug, now called lodamin, went straight to tumor cells and suppressed lung cancer and melanoma in mice, without side effects, Benny said.

A HAIR-RAISING and fundraising night was had by all when friends of lung cancer sufferer Ammi Scott got together at Hacq Hair Artistry at Burleigh Heads.

Author Barbara Howe doesn’t consider herself a writer. But when her husband of 26 years was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005, she sat down at the computer and started typing.

Third annual golf tournament benefits the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation. Tournament includes trophies, contests and prizes. $150 (reception and dinner), $450 (golf and dinner), $1,600 (foursome), sponsorships $2,006-$25,000. Sept. 22. Lake Merced Golf & Country Club, Daly City. (415) 357-1278

 The 15 percent of all lung cancers found in non-smokers may be due to a lack in cell-repair capability, U.S. researchers say. 

Those lacking this capability and exposed to secondhand smoke may have a four-fold increased risk of lung cancer.

June 25, 2008 marks a revolutionary day in history for anybody who cares about Lung Cancer, the Number One Cancer Killer in this country. It’s almost tantamount to July 4th, Independence Day, for Lung Cancer. For the first time, in the last four decades, Lung Cancer finally has a voice, thanks to Senators Chuck Hagel, Dianne Feinstein and the tireless work over the last five years of Laurie Fenton, Sheila Ross and the Lung Cancer Alliance.

 The Mesothelioma Center within the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center is now recruiting patients for a clinical research study of a new targeted radiation and chemotherapy protocol for pleural mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung’s lining that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos.