Anti-smoking groups seek statewide ban for Alabama
MSNBC - According to the American Cancer Society, the smoke coming off a cigarette, breathed in secondhand, kills more than 35,000 people each year due to heart disease and kills more than 3,000 others due to lung cancer. Those deaths are the driving force
Former SKOKY Judge Heading Home From Hospital
Fox41.com - William McAnulty was hospitalized after he fell and broke his collarbone. The 59-year-old judge has had radiation treatments on a shoulder and leg. It comes after he revealed in June that he had lung cancer which had spread to his brain. McAnulty was
An Overview of Pulmonary Diseases
Forbes - Each of the three broad pulmonary disease areas–infectious respiratory disease, obstructive respiratory disease, and lung cancer–has its favoured set of diagnostic methods. However, current methods of diagnosing pulmonary diseases have not fully
Allos Therapeutics Initiates Study of PDX in Patients with
MSN MoneyCentral - The company is also investigating PDX in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and a range of other lymphoma sub-types. The Company’s other product candidate is RH1, a targeted chemotherapeutic agent, for which the company expects to initiate
Joe Van Slyke: 1951 - 2007
Chicago Tribune - His onstage manner was low-key, refined, even patrician, a demeanor laced with effortless gentility and flinty humor. But veteran actor Joe Van Slyke, 55, who died early Monday at home in Chicago after a 17-month battle with lung cancer, also
Smokeless Tobacco Delivers More Dangerous Carcinogens Than Cigarettes
Post Chronicle - NNK is a human carcinogen known to produce lung cancer as well as cancers of the pancreas, nasal mucosa and liver in laboratory animals. “Smokeless tobacco products have been proposed by some as safer alternatives to cigarettes, but they are not safe
Clinical decision modeling system
BioMed Central - We designed a Java-based software resource, the Clinical Decision Modeling System (CDMS), to implement Naive Decision Modeling, and provide a use case based on published performance evaluation measures of various strategies for breast and lung cancer