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December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

Study Proves VolitionRx’s NuQ Test Effective For Lung Cancer Detection in Blood And Sputum

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VolitionRx Limited will present recent results from its pilot lung cancer study at the Science for Business BioWin Day 2014, in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Lung cancers are currently diagnosed when patients exhibit symptoms of impaired ... Read more

December 8, 2014December 8, 2014

Studies Find Bisphosphonates Can Prevent Lung Cancer Development

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Two studies from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), have shown that drugs commonly used to treat ... Read more

December 5, 2014December 5, 2014

Study Analyzes Osteopontin For Prognostic Information In Radiotherapy of NSCLC

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A new study entitled “Prognostic information of serial plasma osteopontin measurement in radiotherapy of non-small-cell lung cancer” was published on BMC Cancer by Dr. Christian Ostheimer, Department of Radiation Oncology, ... Read more

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014

Cough Campaign Gets Thousands More Testing For Lung Cancer

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Recent results published in the British Journal of Cancer, revealed that after an awareness campaign advising people who suffered from persistent cough to visit their physician, a sudden increase in ... Read more

December 3, 2014December 3, 2014

Study Finds 10 Times More Carcinogens in E-Cig Fluid Compared to Cigarettes

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Japan’s Health Ministry recently funded a study that revealed e-cigarettes contain as much as 10 times more carcinogens than regular tobacco. The globally hot alternative to smoking has taken a good ... Read more

December 2, 2014December 2, 2014

Polaris Group Announces Treatment of First Patient in Phase 1 Clinical Trial of ADI-PEG 20 plus Pemetrexed and Cisplatin

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The Polaris Group is currently conducting clinical trials of ADI-PEG 20 to improve response rate to the combination pemetrexed and cisplatin in the treatment of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) and ... Read more

December 1, 2014

Study Finds Gefitnib Effective in Older, African-American Lung Cancer Patients

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In a recent study published in the journal Clinical Medical Insights: Oncology, a team of researchers from the University of Cincinnati found that gefitinib, an FDA approved therapy, could be ... Read more

November 26, 2014November 26, 2014

Study Finds Promising Dual-Therapy For Lung Cancer

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In a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers from the Salk Institute have found that dual-drug therapy with analogs of drugs already approved for other diseases, can improve ... Read more

November 25, 2014November 25, 2014

Major Achievements In The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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One of the 8 original NCCN Guidelines® originally published in 1996, for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), has been published in the 20th annual edition of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) by ... Read more

November 24, 2014November 24, 2014

Race, Insurance, Type of Hospital Determine Lung Cancer Care Quality

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A recent large-scale, multi-ethnic study found that disparities in the quality and extent of lung cancer care received were linked to a number of factors such as race, whether the facility ... Read more