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February 6, 2015February 6, 2015

Alectinib Promising In Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

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A recent study published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology demonstrated that patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) responded positively to treatment with alectinib, an ... Read more

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015

Researchers Link Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Mutations To Ethnicity

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A recent study published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology focused on the possibility that specific mutations in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) vary according to race. The study was ... Read more

February 4, 2015February 4, 2015

Mutation in Parkinson’s Gene Associated With Lung Cancer Susceptibility

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In a new study entitled “A Recurrent Mutation in PARK2 Is Associated with Familial Lung Cancer” a team of researchers found that a germline mutation in a gene associated with ... Read more

February 4, 2015February 4, 2015

Molecularly-Guided Therapy Cost Effective for NSCLC

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Some patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the clinicians who treat them may be inclined to start a chemotherapy regimen immediately upon diagnosis. However, guidelines recommend patients undergo ... Read more

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015

Proteins Associated with Nicotine-Induced Lung Cancer Metastasis Revealed

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Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center recently published a study entitled “β-arrestin-1 mediates nicotine-induced metastasis through E2F1 target genes that modulate epithelial-mesenchymal transition”, where they identify two important proteins responsible for ... Read more

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015

Antibiotics Efficient Against Lung Cancer Cells

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Sometimes scientific breakthroughs come from the most unexpected places. For instance, the idea that Drs. Michael P. Lisanti and Federica Sotgia, a husband and wife cancer research team working at ... Read more

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015

KRAS Signalling Pathway In Lung Cancer Development

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In a recent study published in Science Signaling, titled “Phosphorylation of FADD by the kinase CK1α promotes KRASG12D-induced lung cancer”, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive ... Read more

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015

New Results Show Indi’s Xpresys Lung Can Identify Benign Lung Nodules

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Indi (Integrated Diagnostics®), a company creating innovative molecular diagnostics and tools to effectively manage complicated diseases in a non-invasive manner, has published its latest results from a landmark clinical validation study ... Read more

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015

Novel Strategy To Target Lung Cancer Protein

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Lung cancer can develop as a consequence of a protein named Ras, either through its mutation or because it is present in the wrong place at a certain point in ... Read more

January 29, 2015January 29, 2015

Enzyme Could Become Potential Target For Lung Cancer Treatment

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A recent study by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and the UK’s Center for Environmental and Systems Biochemistry researchers has shown that targeting an essential enzyme and its ... Read more