Monday, March 28, 2011

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News22 new results for effects of lung cancer
 
New drug hope for lung cancer sufferers
Telegraph.co.uk
By preventing the production of survivin, which is rarely found in healthy tissue, the scientists hope the drug will kill cancer cells without causing side-effects in patients. Dr Lesley Walker, Cancer Research UK's director of cancer information, ...
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Jim Stanicki, Facing End of Life Himself, Becomes Hospice Volunteer to Help Others
ABC News
By MIKAELA CONLEY After several years of lung cancer treatments, surgeries and therapies that showed no progress, Jim Stanicki said he'd had enough. Last year, Stanicki, a 60-year-old-man from Denmark, Maine, chose the option of palliative care, ...
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YM Biosciences' Worrisome Business Model
Seeking Alpha
Nevertheless, its potential/applied indications include: Non-small cell lung cancer, pediatric and adult glioma, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric cancer, and head and neck cancer. Now for an under $3/share biotech stock, I have to state ...
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Plutonium health risks may not be as bad as iodine
msnbc.com
You could possibly develop lung cancer from inhaling large quantities of plutonium, says Andrew Maidment, an associate professor of radiology and chief of physics and radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. "But that was never seen in the Japanese ...
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Study Outlines Nicotine's Harms for Diabetics
FairWarning
... lighting up a cigarette doesn't lead to just lung cancer and emphysema, but that it plays a role in other illnesses as well, including diabetes. But new research may have pinpointed the precise cause of smoking's ill effects on diabetics: nicotine. ...
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Lucky for some but not for others
Bangkok Post
However, this does not mean all cancer patients believe in the effectiveness of the herbal alternative cure. A lung cancer patient who preferred only to be called Panu, 57, said after he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he underwent radiotherapy 45 ...
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TN Radon Expert Eases Radiation Concerns After Natural Disaster Hit Japan
PRLog.Org (press release)
Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer amongst nonsmokers. Americans are always hearing about ways to protect against the effects of radiation. Whether the radiation is the direct affect of going to work with radioactive materials, having an x-ray, ...
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Bristol-Myers Squibb: Ipilimumab Approval Brings Positive Surprises
Seeking Alpha
Second line therapy in castration resistant prostate cancer; trial completion in December 2012. First line therapy in squamous histology non small cell lung cancer; trial completion in January 2015. Success in these trials and others could enormously ...
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Is green tea really that healthy?
Philippine Star
A Japanese study found that women with breast cancer were less likely to suffer a recurrence if they drank at least two cups of green tea daily. An analysis of 22 studies of green tea and lung cancer concluded that consuming two cups daily was ...
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Benitec Limited (ASX:BLT) Technology Used By University Of Queensland ...
ABN Newswire (press release)
Benitec's own ddRNAi-based R&D programs in the areas of chronic cancer-associated pain, hepatitis B and drug-resistant lung cancer are aimed at demonstrating the efficacy and safety of the technology which is capable of silencing any gene(s) associated ...
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Conversation Begins On Smoking Bans in Campbell
Patch.com
The Office of the Surgeon General stated in a 2006 report that nonsmokers frequently exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke are 25-30 percent more likely to develop heart disease and 20-30 percent more likely to develop lung cancer. ...
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Nicotine Withdrawl and Recovery Symptoms
Klean
If you do experience increased coughing that persists, it is highly advisable to see your physician for a complete checked-up as one of the earliest signs of lung cancer or disease is a chronic cough. Clearly our lungs will benefit from extra fluids to ...
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10 things every woman MUST know about ovarian cancer
Times Wellness
Here we reveal the facts that could help you avoid it Although ovarian cancer is technically classed as a rare cancer (the common ones are breast, bowel, lung and prostate) it still affects around 6700 women each year in the UK. ...
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Internet pioneer Paul Baran dies at 84
V3.co.uk (blog)
The last was started to investigate using housing wiring to deliver data. He is also credited with inventing the modern metal detector. Baran had been suffering from the effects of lung cancer and died at home from complications. ...
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Preventive use of breast cancer drugs urged
Times of India
Breast cancer kills 12000 women in Britain alone every year and is the second-biggest cause of death among women after lung cancer, according to the Telegraph . The latest study suggested that breast cancer could be tackled using the same mass ...
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Altitude Research Center wins major Pentagon grants
PhysOrg.com (press release)
At the same time, the study could have major implications for medical research, specifically the role altitude plays in cancer, heart and lung disease. "We believe the immediate impact of these studies will be to save lives and improve the performance ...
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Plasmid containing Sindbis replicase genes can destruct lung cancer
Biomed Middle East
... destruction of lung cancer, or melanoma, cells in mice. Previous attempts to use synthetic dsRNA to destroy tumor cells have met with problems, including side effects at an effective dose, but there are also concerns about using attenuated viruses, ...
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Prostate Cancer Survivor's Story of a Robotic Prostatectomy Redo Performed by ...
Marketwire (press release)
By many experts' accounts, robotic assisted prostatectomy is the best option available today for men who are suffering from prostate cancer and fear the possible side effects associated with other treatments and surgeries. When performed by a surgeon ...
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Killer Fashion: An Industry in Denial
In These Times
Fashion images do not cause eating disorders or other health conditions, in the same way that cigarette ads do not cause lung cancer nor liquor ads cause alcoholism. Nevertheless, governments have deemed their influence detrimental enough to public ...
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Raw walnuts fight free radicals more than other nuts
healthzone.ca
People who smoke menthol cigarettes are no more likely to develop lung cancer than those who smoke regular varieties, US researchers said Wednesday in a surprise finding that could affect efforts... Walnuts are the most protective nuts of all and ...
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Provectus (OTCBB:PVCT) Looking to Follow Latest Bristol-Meyer Squibb ...
BiotechStockTrader.com
Research to date shows that PV-10 has the capacity to selectively target and destroy cancer cells without harming surrounding healthy tissue, significantly reducing systemic side effects. The Company has concluded two end-of-Phase 2 meetings with the ...
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Tumors follow stem cells to bone
Scientist
The mechanism, discovered in prostate cancer cells and published online last week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, may hold implications for a variety of cancers, including breast, lung and colon, which also tend to metastasize to bone tissue, ...
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Blogs8 new results for effects of lung cancer
 
Tobacco study burns menthol myth | The Daily Egyptian
By lstover
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute published findings Wednesday regarding the effects of menthol cigarettes and non-menthol cigarettes on lung cancer in smokers. William Blot of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville ...
The Daily Egyptian - http://dailyegyptian.com/
Worth Repeating: Gov't Adds New Cannabis Section To Cancer Site ...
By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~
"The potential effects of medicinal cannabis for people living with cancer include antiemetic effects, appetite stimulation, pain relief, and improved sleep. In the practice of integrative oncology the health care provider may recommend medicinal cannabis not only for symptom .... "A case-controlled study of 611 lung cancer patients revealed that chronic low cannabis exposure was not associated with an increased risk of lung cancer or other upper aerodigestive cancers. ...
Toke of the Town - http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2010/08/ny_attorney_general_candidate_says_she_tried_pot_c.php
Lawrence Solomon: Some Plutonium for Pluto | Energy Probe
By Lawrence Solomon
Recently, the government decided to reassess the old data, in part to determine the health effects at low levels of exposure to plutonium. Its reassessment confirmed that high doses increased the number of lung cancers: The cancers ...
Energy Probe - http://ep.probeinternational.org/
Asbestos Claims: Help With Real Estate Lawyers - Asbestos Lawyers ...
By admin
The inhalation of asbestos fibers can cause serious illnesses, including malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis (a type of pneumoconiosis). Since the mid 1980s, most developed countries and the European Union have banned asbestos. ... This is the moral duty of employer to inform people about hazardous effects of asbestos and to equip them with protective measures. To claim for compensation money is the legal procedure and it requires a asbestos real estate ...
Asbestos Lawyers Pennsylvania - http://www.asbestos-lawyers-pennsylvania.info/
Getting Help To Quit Smoking
For every smoker who dies of lung cancer, 5 will die from other diseases associated to smoking. In fact, 20% of all deaths in North America are caused by cigarette smoking. On an average, a smoker will lose 15 years of his or her .... There are some common habits that do not have any positive effects on human body but only these habits damages the health of the individual. Smoking is of the habits which not only damages the health of the smoker but it also effect the ...
Latest Articles on EzineMark.com - http://ezinemark.com/
The tortured future of Elliot Lake – by Lloyd Tataryn (Saturday ...
By Stan
If anybody does not like to go to the hospital with lung cancer, he should have a very close look at the Elliot Lake situation before he signs on as an employee of either one of the companies. ..... But the effects of exposure to carcinogens are not immediate. It takes fifteen to forty years for cancers to develop in workmen like the Elliot Lake miners. In the meantime, it's extremely easy to rationalize exposing people to a cancer-causing environment. ...
Republic of Mining - http://www.republicofmining.com/
New melanoma drug approved by FDA | InPharm
The drug is the first melanoma treatment to increase overall survival, and could be a major step forward in treating the disease – but it also carries a risk of very serious side-effects. ... In addition to melanoma, BMS is also testing its drug against advanced prostate cancer in phase III trials and also plans to begin a final-stage trial in lung cancer this year. ...
InPharm - http://www.inpharm.com/rssfeed
The Biology of Radioactivity | Radon Leaders Saving Lives
By RadonLeaders
It may be a factor in 5 to 15 percent of all lung cancer cases. We're also always exposed to cosmic radiation, which increases with altitude; exposure to cosmic radiation is why flying in a plane for a total of two days amounts to 0.3 mSv ... Radioactive strontium behaves like calcium; because both accumulate in bones when ingested, radioactive strontium can cause bone-related cancers, including leukemia. That said, it can be difficult to fully track the effects of leaked ...
RadonLeaders.org - http://www.radonleaders.org/

Web4 new results for effects of lung cancer
 
Lung Cancer Causes And Effects | what is mesothelioma?
lung cancer symptom Generally unhealthy lifestyle can be one of lung cancer causes. Today, many people diagnosed with lung cancer but there are still few of ...
mesothelioma-symptom.org/tag/lung-cancer-causes-and-effects
Health Effects of Smoking Vs. Effects of Nonsmoking | eHow.com
Though perhaps best known for raising the risk of lung cancer, the effects of tobacco wreak havoc on the body and can give rise to other cancers such as ...
www.ehow.com/info_8118598_health-smoking-vs-effects-no...
[Effects of JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway on angiogenesis in non ...
[Effects of JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway on angiogenesis in non-small cell lung cancer.] [Article in Chinese]. Zhao M, Liu F, Wang JY, Zhang WY, Gao FH, ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21418908
Question on Tarceva side effects and if anyone has taken with mets ...
She has Stage 4 lung cancer to the brain and recently to the liver. ... I have read about the side effects and I am concern about the diarrhea. ...
csn.cancer.org/node/215080


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