Thursday, March 31, 2011

Google Alert - lung cancer radiation

News9 new results for lung cancer radiation
 
Waterford homes tested for cancer causing radon gas
Waterford Today
The Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) is again urging the people of Waterford to test their homes for the radioactive gas radon, a deadly gas which is linked to up to 200 lung cancer deaths each year in Ireland, after the most recent ...
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CT Trial Results Change Lung Cancer Screening Landscape
Internal Medicine News Digital Network
For men, the risk: benefit ratio runs even higher because currently smoking men undergoing annual CT screening would have about 2 extra lung cancer deaths per 10000 people due to the radiation exposure, compared with 110 per 10000 without screening. ...
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Internal Medicine News Digital Network
The Radiation Risk You Should Be Worried About
KCCI Des Moines
Officials said radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers and causes about 400 deaths in Iowa each year. Nelson said he has seen very serious cases where radiation levels equal to hundreds of chest x-rays. ...
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Experts say radon bigger threat in Alabama than radiation
WAFF
Exposure to radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer, behind smoking. "The Environmental Protection Agency says that if you don't smoke, it's equal to smoking eight cigarettes per day, if your house tests at four picocuries per liter," adds ...
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Japan's Nuclear Refugees May Never Go Home
Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
A speck of it the size of a dust particle can lead to lung cancer and death if inhaled. The toxic element could be carried far from Japan on the wind or by ocean currents. Trace amounts of radioactive contamination, not associated with the plutonium, ...
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Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet
News you can use - Man superglues tiny hat to head
The Vine
by lukeryan on Apr 01 2011, 08:00AM One of Australia's most enduring legal sagas came to an end yesterday, as British American Tobacco reached a presumably costly agreement with the estate of Rolah McCabe, a woman who died of lung cancer in 2002. ...
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Program Provides Dental Care to Cancer Patients
KSMU Radio
"That grant was specifically to be used for cancer patients that were diagnosed with head and neck cancers," said Karen Hahn, a nurse coordinator for lung, head and neck cancer programs at the Hulston Cancer Center. She said the first grant in 2008 ...
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Airport body scanners not a health risk – study
Manila Bulletin
The researchers also said a lung X-ray was equivalent to 1000 trips through an airport scanner, while a mammogram delivers as much radiation as passing through such a scanner 4000 times. The study focused on X-ray machines dubbed ''backscatter'' which ...
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Business Briefs
Snohomish County Business
It involves the delivery of a single, high dose of radiation to an intracranial target in the skull to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. CyberKnife, like Gamma Knife, is a stereotactic technology, which in addition to the brain can treat tumors in ...
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Blogs2 new results for lung cancer radiation
 
63 years of radiation insights from Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
By Janet Fang
Survivors received whole-body exposures from the penetrating radiation, leading to significant cancer risks in the oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, colon, liver , lung, skin, breast, ovary, urinary bladder, brain/central nervous system, ...
Rethinking Healthcare Blog RSS... - http://www.smartplanet.com/technology/blog/rethinking-healthcare/
Fukushima, Chernobyl, Mayak (Never Heard of It?): Health Dangers ...
By Jay Lehr
The GSF study has examined 6293 men who worked at the chemical plant between 1948 and 1972. "So far 301 have died of lung cancer," says Jacob. "But only 100 cases were caused by radiation. The others were attributed to cigarettes." ...
Somewhat Reasonable - http://blog.heartland.org/

Web7 new results for lung cancer radiation
 
Real Time Canada Radiation Levels | 2011 Current Cancer
Radon gas exposure is the second-leading cause of lung cancer after smoking ... New Cancer Radiation Technology Improves Accuracy, Drops Treatment Time In ...
currentcancer.com/search/real+time+canada+radiation+levels
Assisting Supplements For Radiation Therapy | LIVESTRONG.COM
Radiation therapy is a common type of cancer treatment that uses various types of high-energy radiation -- gamma ... Small Cell Lung Cancer Health Video ...
www.livestrong.com/.../410228-assisting-supplements-for-radi...
Japan tsunami and earthquake: the irony of radiation exposure ...
Radiation, Smoking, and Lung Cancer A binational study provides new insights into the effects of smoking and radiation exposure on different histological ...
article.wn.com/.../Japan_tsunami_and_earthquake_the_irony_...
Locoregional and distant failure following image-guided ...
PURPOSE: To report our institutional experience using image-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early stage lung cancer, including an ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21429608
Radiation Oncology
Travis LB, Curtis RE, Inskip PD, Hankey BF: Re: Lung cancer risk and radiation dose among women treated for breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 1995, ...
www.ro-journal.com/content/pdf/1748-717X-6-26.pdf
Cancer Issues - Benefits of Radiation Therapy Outweigh Risks of a ...
The researchers looked at outcomes for 15 different types of cancer for which radiation treatment is routine, including cancers of the rectum, larynx, lung, ...
www.cancerissues.com/ms/news/651362/main.html
PPT Paper Presentation | radiation disease ppt | Ebook PDF ...
Tags: conformal radiation therapy, radiation oncology, radiation side effects, radiation therapy cancer, radiation treatment, ... Lung Cancer Disease [PPT] ...
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