Disease And Conditons, Science
09 Nov 2010
A new study says that lung cancer tumors in those who smoke and those who never smoked have different DNA alterations in the tumor genomes.
The ...
06 Nov 2010
According to a new government founded study, yearly spiral CT scans of current and former heavy smokers lowered the risk that they will die from ...
05 Nov 2010
A team of researchers with the National Cancer Institute say that screening with a low-dose “spiral” CT scan has the potential to reduce lung-cancer deaths.
The ...
Disease And Conditons, Science
05 Nov 2010
The large-scale government study shows that screening heavy smokers with a s"spiral" CT scan can significantly reduce the number of lung-cancer deaths. Researchers say "spiral" ...
03 Nov 2010
Specific drugs used to treat diabetes, such as the commonly used metformin, could also prevent and even contain lung cancer, a study presented by the ...
19 Oct 2010
Tom Bosley, the actor best known as the "Happy Days" dad, died today after what his family called a "brief battle" with lung cancer. He ...
02 Sep 2010
A growing body of new research shows a popular diabetes drug called metformin can reduce the risk of lung cancer, researchers said Wednesday.
A team of ...
15 Sep 2009
Desperate Housewives actress Kathryn Joosten has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
Joosten, who plays Housewives‘ Mrs. McCluskey, is already a cancer survivor, beating the illness in ...
20 Apr 2009
Jacksonville - Quit smoking. Easy to say but hard to do. So hard, in fact, that it is estimated about one out of every four ...