Posts by: Leonor Mateus Ferreira

Leonor Mateus Ferreira

Leonor Mateus Ferreira is an emerging, young journalist, with a Batchelor's degree in Communication and post-graduate degree in Multiplatform Journalism. She is particularly interested in politics and current affairs, and is currently studying for a masters degree in economics and public policies.

May 15, 2015

EMD Serono and Pfizer To Promote NSCLC Therapy

Lung cancer News, News

Biopharmaceutical company EMD Serono has initiated co-promotion of XALKORI (crizotinib), an FDA-approved treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in collaboration with the company that produced the therapy, Pfizer. The ... Read more

April 14, 2015April 14, 2015

Study Notes High Presence Of Radon in Pennsylvania is a Lung Cancer Risk

Lung cancer News, News

Levels of radon, the second-leading cause for the development of lung cancer, are particularly high in homes at Pennsylvia, an alert made by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ... Read more

March 16, 2015March 16, 2015

Lung Cancer Survival Much Lower Than Other Invasive Cancers

Lung cancer News, News

Lung cancer continues to be the third most predominant type of cancer in the world today with only an 18% five-year survival rate, dramatically lower than prostate cancer, breast cancer, and colorectal cancer. Those are the ... Read more

March 11, 2015March 11, 2015

LUNGevity Foundation Distinguishes Female Lung Cancer Researchers

Lung cancer News, News

The lung cancer nonprofit organization LUNGevity Foundation is celebrating female scientists who are making history due to their passion, commitment and research efforts during Women’s History Month 2015. The four women ... Read more

February 24, 2015February 24, 2015

Rush University Awarded for Excellency in Lobectomy

News

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has awarded Rush University Medical Center’s Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery with a three-star lobectomy rating for their surgical lung cancer removal technique. Lobectomy is the surgical removal of an anatomic part ... Read more

December 16, 2014December 17, 2014

Diet High in Fiber May Reduce Damage in Smokers’ Lungs

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Having a diet high in fibre may help smokers decrease the inflammation that afflicts their lungs according to the findings of a study conducted at the University of Auckland. Despite ... Read more

November 14, 2014November 18, 2014

Marshfield Clinic Enters Lung-MAP To Improve Personalized Lung Cancer Treatments

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Lung cancer patients living in the regions of central and northern Wisconsin may be able to benefit from more targeted treatments, as the Marshfield Clinic is going to be part ... Read more

October 7, 2014October 7, 2014

Discovery Labs Receives $3 Million Grant for Radiation-Induced Lung Injury Therapy

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Discovery Laboratories, a biotechnology company developing a countermeasure for the treatment of acute and chronic, late-phase radiation-induced lung injury, was granted $3.0 million from the Phase II Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR), ... Read more

October 6, 2014

FDA Grants Ariad’s Lung Cancer Drug Breakthrough Therapy Status

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted the investigational cancer drug AP26113, being developed by Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Breakthrough Therapy status. The treatment is meant for patients suffering from anaplastic lymphoma kinase positive ... Read more

September 25, 2014September 26, 2014

More Expensive to Treat Advanced Stage Lung Cancer than Early Screening Detection

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The average cost of early detection of lung cancer through screening high-risk patients for the disease using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), in addition to the average cost of curative intent treatment, such as surgery, is ... Read more