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April 14, 2015April 14, 2015

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

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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

April 13, 2015May 27, 2015

Added Benefit Of NSCLC Therapy Nintedanib Shown To Depend On Disease Severity

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In late November 2014 nintedanib, commercialized under the trade mark Vargatef, was approved to be used in combination with docetaxel to address the treatment of adults suffering with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) of the ... Read more

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015

Study Finds Protein Boosts Cancer Stem Cell Renewal in NSCLC

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In a recent study entitled “YAP1 Regulates OCT4 Activity and SOX2 Expression to Facilitate self-renewal and Vascular Mimicry of Stem-like Cells” researchers show how YAP1 protein promotes lung cancer stem ... Read more

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015

XBiotech Publishes Results Of Xilonix For The Treatment Of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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XBiotech Inc., a company working on the development of next-generation True Human therapeutic antibodies, recently announced the results from a study in a subset of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ... Read more

April 6, 2015April 6, 2015

Fasting And Less-Toxic Drugs Might Work As Well As Chemotherapy

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Thanks to a multinational collaboration between the University of Southern California, Lizzia Raffaghello at the G. Gaslini Institute in Italy and the laboratories of Alessio Nencioni at University of Genova, animal studies demonstrated that ... Read more

April 2, 2015April 2, 2015

West Virginia Researcher Involved In Groundbreaking NSCLC Treatment Studies

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Dr. Alexander Chi, a thoracic radiation oncologist from West Virginia University, is leading a groundbreaking research project on lung cancer. Dr. Chi is the principal investigator of a phase 2 clinical trial assessing the ... Read more

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

The Retinoblastoma Gene – An “Old” Cancer Gene With a Novel Function

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Researchers from The Institute of Cancer Research, London and UCL (University College London) revealed a previously unknown function for an old cancer gene, the retinoblastoma gene: “gluing” broken strands of ... Read more

March 30, 2015April 7, 2015

New LungFUSION Panel For Translocations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Agena Bioscience, a San Diego-based clinical diagnostics and life sciences company, recently announced the release of a new assay called LungFUSION Panel that can efficiently identify specific oncogenic gene fusions (ALK, RET, and ROS1) ... Read more

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015

Gene Expression Altered in Lung Cancer Tumors

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If scientists and researchers understood the molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis, lung cancer could be eradicated. A recent study made one more step forward in the goal of understanding lung cancer ... Read more

March 24, 2015March 24, 2015

Biodesix And Inivate Collaborate To Test Next Generation Sequencing Blood Test for Lung Cancer

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Biodesix, Inc. and Inivata recently announced they will collaborate in the development and commercialization of blood tests using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for lung cancer. This partnership will leverage Inivata’s proprietary ... Read more