Blood test may find early lung cancer
The Age - Jul 16 12:23 PM
A blood test that looks for the body’s own immune response to tumours may provide an easy way to find lung cancer in patients long before an X-ray or CT scan could, US researchers report.Save to My Web
More may be better for lung cancer surgery
Cancerfacts.com - Jul 13 12:37 AM
MELBOURNE, Australia July 10, 2006 Despite being the treatment of choice for most lung cancer patients, a new analysis of current research failed to find that surgery produces a significant survival advantage overall for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.Save to My Web
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UPI - Jul 17 3:08 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I., July 17 (UPI) — Fifty-seven percent of U.S. lung cancer patients with early-stage, I-II, non-small cell lung cancer treated with thermal ablation lived up to three years.Save to My Web
Non-Surgical Treatment Gives Patients With Inoperable Lung Cancer Three Years or More
RedNova - Jul 17 8:10 AM
FAIRFAX, Va., July 17 /PRNewswire/ — Fifty-seven percent of lung cancer patients who were treated with thermal ablation survived to three years, two years beyond average life expectancy, according to research in the July issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR).Save to My Web
Health Highlights: July 18, 2006
HealthDay via Yahoo! News - Jul 18 9:02 AM
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:Save to My Web
Richwood basketball player dies of cancer
The Daily Comet - Jul 17 4:35 PM
Rod Jenkins, a key member of the Richwood High basketball team who was diagnosed with lung cancer last season, has died. Jenkins died Sunday. He was 17.Save to My Web
Stephen King’s ‘Nightmares’ continues on TNT
Detroit News - Jul 18 11:07 PM
Stephen King has no end of bankable nightmares: the surreal, farrago kind, in which the cursor turns into your father, who is also Jack Kennedy, and he keeps slipping into the pool. What’s so great about that? Like all of our boring dreams, King’s don’t cohere; they’re desultory and plotless, characters come and go, and dialogue that sounds pithy is also meaningless.Save to My Web