August 17th, 2011
For immediate release – August 17, 2011 (Toronto) – Smokers with variations in two specific genes have a greater risk of smoking more cigarettes, becoming more dependent on nicotine and developing lung cancer, a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows.
The cancer risk from these two genes appears to be even higher in smokers who consume 20 or fewer cigarettes a day, according to the study published in the September issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
CAMH Scientist Dr. Rachel Tyndale and her team studied two genes: the nicotine metabolic gene (CYP2A6) and the nicotinic gene cluster (CHRNA5-A3-B3). These genes have been independently linked to smoking behaviours and lung cancer.
August 16th, 2011
by Linda Fugate, PhD
Some smokers get lung cancer and others do not. The reason for this may involve bacterial infection, according to a review by Dr. Seyed Javad Moghaddam of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and colleagues at three other research institutions. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is the main culprit, they reported. This pathogen is similar to Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), which is a common cause of meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections in children who have not been vaccinated against it. The nontypeable variety is missing the polysaccharide capsule present in Hib and other, less common varieties.
July 15th, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies have joined forces to reduce exposure to radon, one of the leading causes of lung cancer. According to the environmental agency, radon exposure causes some 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year and is the second leading cause of the disease in the United States.
March 31st, 2011
Rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, the most recent reporting period available, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. The report also finds that the overall rate of new cancer diagnoses for men and women combined decreased an average of slightly less than 1 percent per year for the same period.
March 30th, 2011
It took complications from prostate cancer surgery for Charles Florsheim to discover he had lung cancer.A chest X-ray before a second operation showed a “vague density” that turned out to be the disease that kills more Americans than the three other leading cancers combined.”It came as a complete shock,” Florsheim said, sitting in his downtown Fort Worth law office 18 months after surgery to remove the upper and middle lobes of his right lung.He wanted to just walk away from the disease, he said. But his oncologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center drew him into the National Lung Cancer Partnership. Now, Florsheim’s promoting education about lung cancer and efforts to raise money for woefully underfunded research.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/30/2962438/deadliest-cancer-isnt-what-you.html#ixzz1KH2l9Bdz
March 1st, 2011
Royston English wasn’t going to be brought down without a fight.
Those who knew the Waltham High graduate weren’t surprised. They knew what type of kid he was growing up in the city and what type of man he became when he returned after college. Those who’d ever seen him play football wouldn’t expect anything less. They saw how he dominated the field as a WHS football star and how he battled for every yard and every score during a stellar career at the University of Maine.
It was no different in the Summer of 2009 when English was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was defiant at first. He hadn’t done anything to deserve the disease – never smoked, never did drugs, did not drink and did not come from a family with a cancer history – so he wasn’t going to let it take him down.
February 9th, 2011
It has been predicted that Europe in particular will witness close to 1.3 million cancer related deaths this year, with rates rising dramatically for lung cancer in women. Meanwhile, in a survey conducted by the British Medical Journal this month, 72% of readers think healthcare in England in five years’ time will be worse or much worse compared with now.
To form this estimate, researchers focused on data on cancer deaths in the European Union (EU) for the period 1970-2007 to calculate rates of death each year and to identify trends which they used to predict death rates for 2011.
December 8th, 2010
When Martha McCann Lesnick’s granddaughter was about 6 years old, she asked her grandmother about the yellow LiveStrong wristband she wore.
Lesnick explained that she wore it because she was fighting lung cancer. Her granddaughter replied: “oh yeah, that’s because…what did you do?”
“She was talking about smoking,” says Lesnick, a Nashville songwriter and four-year lung cancer survivor.
November 21st, 2010
There is a campaign going on RIGHT NOW to bring the topic of lung cancer to the attention of Oprah Winfrey, in hopes the immensely popular talk show host will help bring awareness to the issue. The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation is sending a gigantic letter – 6 feet tall – to the Oprah Winfrey Show to catch the attention of producers and ask Oprah to dedicate a show to the topic of lung cancer.
October 27th, 2010
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