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Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, lung cancer is the second most common cancer for all males in the United States. Among females, lung cancer is the second most common cancer among white and American Indian/Alaska Native females and the third most common cancer among black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic females.

Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent. The finding is of major public health concern because nearly half of all nonsmoking Americans still are exposed to secondhand smoke regularly.

Secondhand smoke exposure can cause heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults and is a known cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), respiratory problems, ear infections, and asthma attacks in infants and children, the report finds.

"We see about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmoking people a year. But the cardiovascular effects are about 15 times larger. We estimate at a minimum 35,000 to as high as 50,000 to 60,000 people die each year from heart attacks and strokes after being exposed to secondhand smoke. These are people with diseased arteries. Those disease spots are vulnerable to the effects of the toxins in smoke," says Terry Pechacek, PhD, Associate Director for Science in CDC's Office on Smoking and Health.

The financial costs of lung cancer are high. A recent study estimated that the cost of treating lung cancer in the United States in 1996 was about five billion dollars per year (see Costs of Cancer Care). This made it one of the most expensive cancers to treat in the country.

Pazopanib shrinks lung cancers before surgery

Pazopanib, a new oral angiogenesis inhibitor, has demonstrated interesting activity in difficult to treat non-small-cell lung cancer, US researchers report. In a phase II trial, 30 out of 35 patients treated with preoperative pazopanib for a minimum of two weeks saw their tumor size shrink by up to 85%. "This is a positive result that will be explored further," said Prof. Nasser Altorki from Weil Medical College of Cornell University in........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 9/16/2008 10:19:38 PM)

Tobacco industry manipulated cigarette menthol content

Menthol cigarette brands have been rising in popularity with adolescents, and the highest use has been among younger, newer smokers. Scientists at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) explored tobacco industry manipulation of menthol levels in specific brands and found a deliberate strategy to recruit and addict young smokers by adjusting menthol to create a milder experience for the first time smoker. Menthol masks the harshness and........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 7/16/2008 9:00:23 PM)

Researchers ID gene linked to lung cancer

Scientists at Johns Hopkins, as part of a large, multi-institutional study, have found one gene variant that is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer. The study would be reported in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics. The research team collected DNA from 1,154 smokers who have lung cancer and 1,137 smokers without lung cancer. Each DNA sample was analyzed at more than 300,000 points, looking for variationsknown as single........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 4/2/2008 10:14:32 PM)

Cannabis based medicines may help smokers to quit

Smokers trying to quit in the future could do it with the help of cannabis based medicines, as per research from The University of Nottingham. Teams of pharmacologists, studying the cannabis-like compounds which exist naturally in our bodies (endocannabinoids), are exploring the potential for medical therapy. This includes treating conditions as diverse as obesity, diabetes, depression and addiction to substances like nicotine. ........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/9/2008 5:18:29 PM)

PET Outperforms CT In Malignant Lung Nodules

Researchers involved in a large, multi-institutional study comparing the accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) in the characterization of lung nodules found that PET was far more reliable in detecting whether or not a nodule was malignant. "CT and PET have been widely used to characterize solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) as non-cancerous or malignant," said James W. Fletcher, professor of radiology at........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 2/6/2008 9:24:09 PM)

Cells That Promote Formation of Lethal Lung Metastases

Cancer patients commonly ask what can be done after a primary tumor has already spread, or metastasized, to other organs. In a number of cases, they learn, little can be done. Hence the importance of a discovery by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) of a type of cell that regulates the transformation of small, dormant lung metastases into large, aggressive metastases - the kind that kill cancer patients. The cells that........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/10/2008 10:33:48 PM)

Improving the prognosis of lung cancer

A group of researchers led by Professor Xavier Pars of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, has published a research on AKR1B10, an enzyme that is detected in large quantities only in lung cancers, especially those caused by smoking. This enzyme can appear even when the cancer has still not developed and lesions are premalignant. Thus this molecule would serve as a good marker in the........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/8/2008 5:13:29 AM)

Tobacco marketers targeting teens near schools

Joe Camel may be long gone, but that doesnt mean tobacco marketers have abandoned their efforts to get young people hooked on smoking. A new Canadian study reports that tobacco marketers have found a way around tobacco advertising restrictions, reaching teens by marketing in retail shops located near high schools. The findings, reported in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, suggest the strategy is working. At the time of the study, we........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/27/2007 10:15:38 PM)

Tumor-suppressor gene for lung cancer

The GPRC5A gene, which is under-expressed in human lung cancer cells, suppresses lung tumors in mouse models and could provide a key to attacking lung cancer in humans, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Nov. 21 edition of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The study observed that mice with both of their GPRC5A genes suppressed developed normally until their second year of life, when........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/13/2007 9:37:34 PM)

New insights into lung cancer

An international consortium of researchers today in an advanced online publication in the journal Nature revealed a comprehensive view of the altered genetic background of the type of lung cancer that is the most common cause of cancer deaths in humans. Of particular interest was a specific proto-oncogene called NKX2-1 that appears involved in as a number of as 12 percent of lung adenocarcinomas the most common cause of cancer deaths........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/4/2007 2:44:42 PM)

Early warning system for lung cancer

An immune system protein could act as an early warning system for lung cancer, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax. Lung cancer kills around 900,000 people every year, and can take 20 years or more to develop fully. But it is commonly only picked up at an advanced stage, when the chances of successful therapy are slim. As yet, there is no effective early warning system to detect the disease in its early........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 10/10/2007 5:46:07 PM)

Genetics of smoking cessation

A genetic variant present in nearly half of Americans of European ancestry is associated with greater effectiveness of the smoking cessation medicine bupropion (Zyban), as per research by researchers supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). People with this variant were less likely than those without it to have resumed smoking six months........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 9/10/2007 9:06:33 PM)

Radiation and drug combo for lung cancer

Combining radiation treatment with a drug that helps destroy blood vessels nourishing cancerous tumors has been shown in mice to be significantly more effective in treating lung cancer than either approach alone, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The study, involving human lung-cancer cells implanted in mice, appears in the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research. In the study, Dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 9/3/2007 12:51:44 PM)

Smoking Eventually Leads to Graveyard

This is a typical anti-smoking print advertisement campaign signaling where smoking habit eventually leads. This advertisement was published in Kuwait in Public interest to make people feel the urgency to quit smoking. The apparent message of the advertisement is that all the cigarettes consumed by a person are in turn used in making a coffin for that very person in a graveyard. The advertisement is showing a coffin like structure made of........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 7/12/2007 5:09:22 AM)

Gene variations, inflammation and lung cancer

Variations in two genes correlation to inflammation may be a major risk factor for developing lung cancer, as per a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The effect of these genes is particularly strong among heavy smokers, suggesting that the inflammatory response is important in modulating the damage caused by tobacco smoke. Their study, reported in the July 1........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 7/3/2007 5:04:13 AM)

Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery

Alcoholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism therapy are also chronic smokers. New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol. Alcoholics frequently smoke. A number of alcoholics in therapy continue to smoke. New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 6/25/2007 9:26:53 PM)

US Supreme Court Rules Against Phillip Morris

The US Supreme Court on Monday revitalized some tobacco lawsuits when it declined to permit Philip Morris, the big US cigarette maker, to fight cases involving deceptive marketing of ‘light’ cigarettes in federal court, rather than in more plaintiff-friendly state trials. The Supreme Court inverted an appeals court verdict that a federal court should hear the class-action suit, Watson v. Philip Morris. The lawsuit accuses that........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 6/15/2007 1:30:43 PM)

Advances In Lung Cancer Treatment

Scientists at the Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals Case Medical Center have developed methods for treating lung cancer cells that have become resistant to new anti-cancer agents. Led by Balazs Halmos, MD, hematologist/oncologist with the Ireland Cancer Center, the research team followed up on their prior study, reported in the New England Journal (NEJM), which observed that lung cancer cells can become resistant to novel........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 4/23/2007 9:38:26 PM)

Race affects tobacco absorption in children

New research suggests that a child's race may be a factor in determining his/her susceptibility to tobacco toxins linked to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The study, reported in the recent issue of CHEST, the peer-evaluated journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), reveals that African American children with asthma, who are exposed to ETS, have significantly higher toxin levels when in comparison to their Caucasian........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/29/2007 5:09:09 AM)

Smoking Greatly Increases The Risk For Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the most deadly of all cancers. It is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, as per the American Cancer society (ACS). More people die of this than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. The ACS predicts that in 2007 there will be about 213,380 new cases. Of this number, about 160,390 people will die. Sadly, this can be prevented if people would stop smoking. Smoking is the root cause of eight out........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/24/2007 9:59:06 AM)

Cause of Smokers' Cravings

Video of Jed Rose explaining the regions of the brain that control craving is available in the following formats: RealMedia, QuickTime and Windows Media Video. DURHAM, N.C. -- Within the mind of every smoker trying to quit rages a battle between the higher-order functions of the brain wanting to break the habit and the lower-order functions screaming for another cigarette, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. More often than........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 3/19/2007 9:40:32 PM)

Lung Cancer-derived EGFR Mutants

A new study sheds light on how some small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including two that are currently being used clinically to treat cancer, interact with wild-type and mutated forms of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The research, reported in the recent issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, may help to guide rational use of currently available EGFR inhibitors and provides new direction for the design........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 3/13/2007 10:09:28 PM)

CT Scans Still Not Advised for Lung Cancer Screening

Using CT scan to screen for lung cancer provides no benefit to smokers: The use of computed tomography (CT) scans to screen current or former smokers for lung cancer is still too experimental to recommend for widespread medical use, as per results from a new study. The potential use of imaging tests like CT to screen for lung cancer has been the subject of lively debate in recent years. Some prior studies have suggested that such tests........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/13/2007 10:03:07 PM)

How Body Fights To Control Spread Of Cancer

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found how two molecules fight in the blood to control the spread of cancer cells.

Researchers discovered that a large protein, which forms a protective shield around cancer cells and prevents them from causing secondary tumours, is attacked by a small protein that exists in the blood.

In diseases such as breast, lung and colorectal cancer, infected cells lose growth control and eventually........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/8/2007 9:36:59 PM)

New Lung Cancer Therapy With Fewer Radiation Treatments

You probably have not to take that prolonged therapy with radiation treatment. Now there is a new cancer therapy that cuts down the amount of radiation a patient must endure. This new therapy method would cut 35 therapys of radiation to five therapys. This new technique is called sterotactic body radiotherapy.

Julie Lenander has lung cancer. She's getting stereotactic body radiotherapy at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 12/17/2006 9:16:15 PM)

Gender Disparity In Lung Cancer Survival

Is there gender discrimination for lung cancer? Scientists have previously indicated that women do significantly better than men in surviving lung cancer. Now there is proof, a new study shows that women do better with several types of lung cancer.

The study, led by Dr. Robert J. Cerfolio, a thoracic surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, observed that women at every stage of non-small cell lung cancer had higher rates of........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 12/17/2006 8:47:17 PM)

Exercise may reduce lung cancer risk

Good news for women who do regular exercise! Even if you smoke your may reduce your chance of developing lung cancer by doing regular exercise. This new study shows that regular exercise may cut down the risk of lung cancer. But this comes with a warning. The researchers caution that any relative benefit is dwarfed by the benefits gained from kicking the habit.

In the study, women who reported high levels of physical activity were 23 per........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 12/17/2006 8:36:41 PM)

Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs

Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a yearfour times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put togetherbut the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, claim experts on bmj.com today. Professor Robert West from the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre and his colleagues argue that more smokers would quit if cigarettes cost more, but at around half the price,........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 10/9/2008 10:36:27 PM)

Perceived access to cigarettes predicts youth smoking

Washington, DC Kids who see cigarettes as easily accessible are more likely to end up as regular smokers, especially if they have friends who smoke, as per a new report reported in the current issue of Annals of Family Medicine The study, funded by the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (SAPRP) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, could be valuable to smoking intervention efforts by allowing health professionals to identify and target........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 7/14/2008 9:45:07 PM)

Genetic mutation and risk of lung cancer

Carriers of a common genetic disorder previously associated with lung disease may have a 70-percent to 100-percent increased risk of lung cancer, as per a report in the May 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The disorder, alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (1ATD), is one of the most common genetic conditions affecting the U.S. population and particularly those of European descent, as per background........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 5/26/2008 8:08:14 PM)

New method to test for lung cancer

Scientists from Boston University School of Medicine have developed a new clinicogenomic model to accurately test for lung cancer. The model combines a specific gene expression for lung cancer as well as clinical risk factors. These findings currently appear on-line in the journal Cancer Prevention Research. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the world, with more than one million deaths worldwide........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 4/1/2008 9:08:51 PM)

Surgery for lung cancer better att teaching hospitals

Patients cared for by hospitals with residents in training have a 17 percent less chance of dying after lung cancer surgery compared with patients undergoing surgery at non-teaching hospitals, as per results of a Johns Hopkins study reported in the recent issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. Theres a public perception that teaching hospitals can be dangerous places because of training issues, and concerns are frequently voiced by........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/4/2008 5:22:19 PM)

Number of Russian women smokers has doubled

In 1992, seven per cent of women smoked, compared to almost 15 per cent by 2003. In the same period, the number of men who smoke has risen from 57 per cent to 63 per cent. The researchers behind the study, published in the journal Tobacco Control, blame the privatisation of the previously state owned tobacco industry and the behaviour of the transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) for what they describe as a "very worrying increase". ........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/28/2008 10:57:54 PM)

Smoking rate among New York City teens

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jonathan Mintz released new data today from the 2007 New York City Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) showing that cigarette smoking among New York City teens declined by 20 percent between 2005 and 2007. The citys teen smoking rate has dropped by more than half over the past six years, from 17.6 percent in 2001 to 8.5 percent in 2007. The........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/2/2008 10:47:32 PM)

High school activities lowers risk of smoking

Scientists from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania reported today that students who participate in high school sports or individual physical activity are less likely to smoke than their classmates. The new study indicates that the protective effect of participation extends at least three years beyond graduation. The Penn team discovered, however, that girls do not derive the same level of protection from school sports........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 12/6/2007 8:14:08 PM)

Compound Promotes Death Of Lung-cancer Cells

Human lung-cancer tumors grown in mice have been shown to regress or disappear when treated with a synthetic compound that mimics the action of a naturally occurring "death-promoting" protein found in cells, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center report. The findings, appearing in today's issue of Cancer Cell, suggest that the compound might one day be used in targeted therapies for lung and possibly other cancers, the scientists said.........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/12/2007 8:54:54 PM)

CAD plus MDCT useful in finding lung nodules

Computer-aided detection combined with MDCT improves radiologists ability to detect solid lung nodules early enough for them to be treated without increasing interpretation time as per a recent study conducted by scientists at Hopital Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris, France. The comparison of a current examination with previous examinations is a time-consuming and tedious task, said Philippe A. Grenier, MD, lead author of the study. This study........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/5/2007 9:37:09 PM)

Preventing lung scarring in lung cancer patients

Scientists have observed that using a special type of drug called a pharmaceutical monoclonal antibody to block the integrin beta6-TGF-beta pathway prevents a serious side effect of radiation treatment for patients with lung cancer pulmonary fibrosis (scarring of the lungs), thereby extending patients lives and improving their quality of life, as per a research studypresented at the Plenary I session on October 29, 2007, at the American........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 10/29/2007 10:20:15 PM)

Lung cancer subtype and treatment outcomes

In clinical research, patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that are classified as having a non-squamous histology achieve statistically significant higher survival when treated in the second-line setting with ALIMTA (pemetrexed for injection) when in comparison to histologically-similar patients treated with docetaxel. The data (ECCO Abstract # 6521) were presented at the 14th European Cancer Conference (ECCO) in........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 9/26/2007 8:52:11 PM)

Avastin approved in Europe for advanced lung cancer

Roche's innovative anti-cancer drug, was approved today in Europe for the first-line therapy of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy. NSCLC is the most common form of lung cancer, a difficult to treat disease that kills over 3,000 people per day worldwide. NSCLC is commonly diagnosed at an advanced stage, meaning individuals diagnosed with the disease typically have a life........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 8/27/2007 8:05:31 PM)

Who's Quitting, And Who's Not?

Quitting smoking is not easy, but thousands of New Yorkers succeed at it every year. Who's trying to kick the habit, and who's succeeding? In a new report titled Who's Still Smoking, the Health Department sheds light on both questions. The report, based on a large survey of New York City adults, shows that two thirds of the city's smokers - almost 800,000 adults - tried to quit in the past year, but only 17% of those succeeded. Data from the........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 8/21/2007 4:59:16 PM)

Increasing survival rates in lung cancer

Patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer who receive an initial high dose of chemotherapy before their therapy begins can expect an increase in overall survival, as per a research studyin the July 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO. Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer in the United States, as per the American Cancer Society.........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 6/29/2007 5:07:00 AM)

Young smokers want to quit, but don't try

Despite tried and true methods to quit smoking, young adults do not take advantage of these proven smoking cessation therapys that can double their chances of quitting, University of Illinois at Chicago public health scientists report. The research is published online and will appear in the recent issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Young adult smokers are highly motivated to quit -- almost half have tried to quit in the past........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 6/29/2007 5:05:55 AM)

Talcum powder stunts growth of lung tumors

Talcum powder has been used for generations to soothe babies diaper rash and freshen womens faces. But University of Florida researchers report the household product has an additional healing power: The ability to stunt cancer growth by cutting the flow of blood to metastatic lung tumors. The study, published in the European Respiratory Journal in April, reveals that talc stimulates healthy cells to produce endostatin, a hormone considered........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 6/6/2007 9:51:17 PM)

Secondhand smoke proves to be serious

A study published in this months issue of the Journal of Periodontology found that subjects with periodontitis who were exposed to secondhand smoke were more likely to develop bone loss, the number one cause of tooth loss. Researchers studied rats that were induced with periodontal disease. One group was not exposed to cigarette smoke while the other two groups were exposed to either 30 days of smoke inhalation produced by non-light........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 4/3/2007 10:45:08 PM)

New Cigarettes Designs Don't Offer Lower Cancer Risks

The tobacco company's description of its new cigarette brand seems to promise a lot. "May present less risk of cancer linked to smoking," the company boasts on its Web site, making it a natural choice "for smokers who have decided not to quit, but who are interested in a cigarette that responds to concerns about certain smoking-related illnesses, including cancer." Another tobacco firm, in a print ad for the brand, has crowed "All of the........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 3/29/2007 5:08:07 AM)

Lack Of A Protein In Lung Tumors

A study of human lung tumors indicates that patients with lung cancer who lack a particular protein may do more poorly than those with normal levels of that same protein. If the findings are verified in a clinical trial, the absence of the protein might be used to identify patients with lung cancer who need more aggressive treatment after surgery. The protein is the product of a gene called Olig1, which previously has not been linked with........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/29/2007 4:55:45 AM)

Easy To Avoid Mesothelioma

It is known that mesothelioma is caused by breathing asbestos fibers into the lungs. When this happens, the lungs or the abdomen may be affected by the disease. Because asbestos is so strongly linked to mesothelioma, regulations have been created to set limits on the amount of exposure to asbestos a worker can have in a workplace. People who must work around asbestos because of the nature of their work must wear protective clothing.........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/24/2007 9:55:10 AM)

Green Tea May Fight Lung Cancer

Looks like a cup of green tea is a good fight to lung cancer according to this article published on the medicinenet.com site: Green tea may fight lung cancer and could inspire the creation of new lung cancer drugs, researchers report. But it may be too soon to count on a cup of green tea to curb lung cancer. So far, the researchers have only tested green tea extract against human lung cancer cells in test tubes, not people. The........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/13/2007 10:05:50 PM)

If Mom Smoked During Pregnancy

Quitting smoking may be more difficult for individuals whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, as per animal research conducted by Duke University Medical Center researchers.

Prenatal exposure to nicotine is known to alter areas of the brain critical to learning, memory and reward. Researchers at the Duke Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research have discovered that these alterations may program the brain for relapse to nicotine........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/24/2007 5:50:55 PM)

Dual Gene Therapy Suppresses Lung Cancer

Combination gene treatment delivered in lipid-based nanoparticles drastically reduces the number and size of human non-small cell lung cancer tumors in mice, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center report in the Jan. 15 edition of Cancer Research.

Two tumor-suppressing genes given intravenously reduced cancer separately but had their most powerful effect when........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/15/2007 4:58:11 AM)

Successful Lung Cancer Surgery Not Enough

We would believe that once someone is diagnosed with lung cancer and undergoes a surgery, which involves removal of part or the whole of lung would motivate that person to quit smoking. But that may not be correct. A new study has observed that close to half of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, and more than one-third were smoking........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 12/17/2006 9:09:25 PM)

Pill helps early lung cancer patients

Avastin is a pill that is FDA approved for the therapy of patients with metastatic colon cancer. Now avastin is finding other uses. It has been shown that Avastin could be very useful in lung cancer.

A pill that starves tumors of their blood supply can help patients live longer, without adding to some of the worst effects of chemotherapy, scientists report.

They said Avastin helped patients live a median of two months longer -- a........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 12/17/2006 8:41:38 PM)

Heavy smokers who cut back

University of Minnesota tobacco scientists have observed that heavy smokers who reduce their number of daily cigarettes still take in two to three times more total toxins per cigarette than light smokers.

The study, reported in the recent issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, cites compensatory smoking as the chief reason for the increased exposure despite decreased cigarette use.

"We observed that the more that heavy........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 12/17/2006 8:29:03 PM)

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