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More suspected cancer cases can be identified early within primary care

Considerably more cases of suspected cancer can today be identified early within primary care. Partly based on symptoms but also statistics on the patients' visits to health centers, indicates research from Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

27 Apr 2018

Cancer Australia releases new national data on cancer stage at diagnosis

For the first time in Australia, national data on cancer stage at diagnosis is available for the top five incidence cancers – female breast cancer, colorectal, lung, prostate cancers and melanoma.

27 Apr 2018

Researchers uncover how obesity leads to cancer in epithelial cells

A new study led by researchers at Hokkaido University has shown that obesity may enhance the progression of cancer, while aspirin may protect against it.

26 Apr 2018

Slight changes in patient's position during radiotherapy may impact survival chances

Very small differences in the way a patient lies during radiotherapy treatment for lung or oesophageal cancer can have an impact on how likely they are to survive, according to research presented at the ESTRO 37 conference.

23 Apr 2018

Scientists find link between soil metals and cancer mortality

Spanish epidemiologists and geologists have found associations between esophageal cancer and soils where lead is abundant, lung cancer and terrains with increased copper content, brain tumor with areas rich in arsenic, and bladder cancer with high cadmium levels.

20 Apr 2018

UT Southwestern researchers identify 170 potential therapeutic targets for lung cancer

After testing more than 200,000 chemical compounds, UT Southwestern's Simmons Cancer Center researchers have identified 170 chemicals that are potential candidates for development into drug therapies for lung cancer.

20 Apr 2018

Researchers evaluate accuracy of simple blood test to predict lung cancer

Every year, health care providers in the United States discover more than 1.6 million lung nodules in patients.

18 Apr 2018

Some human cancers may be result of evolutionary accidents, research finds

New research, published in Biological Reviews and conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool and Escola Superior de Ciências da Saúde (Brasília, Brazil) has found some type of cancers unique to humans may be a result of evolutionary accidents.

17 Apr 2018

Study reports promising novel approach to treat therapy resistant pediatric brain tumors

Researchers used an experimental molecular therapy in preclinical laboratory tests to effectively treat several types of deadly pediatric brain cancer and now propose advancing the treatment to clinical testing in children.

17 Apr 2018

Study challenges use of whole-brain radiation for small-cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases

Lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. Historically, brain metastases have been treated with whole-brain radiation therapy.

17 Apr 2018

Anti-PD-1 treatment reduces tumor size and post-surgical relapse of lung cancer

A drug given to early stage lung cancer patients before they undergo surgery showed major tumor responses in the removed tumor and an increase in anti-tumor T-cells that remained after the tumor was removed, which resulted in fewer relapse cases in the patients.

16 Apr 2018

Cancer Australia launches new framework to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients

In an Australian first, Cancer Australia today launched a Framework to improve the outcomes and experiences of people affected by lung cancer – the leading cause of cancer death in Australia.

16 Apr 2018

Research reveals immune suppressive role of soluble antibodies in tumor progression

Wistar researchers have found that soluble antibodies promote tumor progression by inducing accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in pre-clinical cancer models. Results were published online in Cancer Immunology Research.

13 Apr 2018

Targeting metabolism of key nutrients could be effective in treating squamous cell carcinoma

Researchers from UCLA and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center have found that two targeted therapies could be more effective if used in combination to treat squamous cell carcinomas of the lung.

12 Apr 2018

Experimental peptide drug shows promise against acute myeloid leukemia

In a study published online today in Science Translational Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers report that an experimental peptide drug shows promise against the often-lethal cancer acute myeloid leukemia and describe how the drug works at the molecular level.

11 Apr 2018

Nanotechnology-based treatment approach shown to be effective in mouse models of lung cancer

The most common type of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), continues to be difficult to treat, with five year survival rates of about 36 percent for stage 3A tumors.

11 Apr 2018

Novel tool successfully predicts outcomes for lung cancer

Researchers have used open source data to develop a personalized risk assessment tool that can predict survival rate and treatment outcomes among patients with early-stage lung cancer.

11 Apr 2018

Cancer risk increases with longer wait time for diagnostic testing

The longer a patient with a positive screening result waits for diagnostic testing, the worse their cancer outcomes may become, according to a literature review of breast, cervical, colorectal, and lung studies in the journal CA led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

10 Apr 2018

New class of drug holds potential to help patients with treatment-resistant cancers

Researchers have discovered a new class of drug that has the potential to help cancer patients who no longer respond to existing therapies.

10 Apr 2018

Finding new drug target for common form of lung cancer

Research by Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey investigators has identified novel functions of the superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) enzyme providing support that it could serve as a therapeutic target in the most common type of lung cancer.

10 Apr 2018

Lung Cancer News and Research

Latest Lung Cancer News and Research

More suspected cancer cases can be identified early within primary care

Cancer Australia releases new national data on cancer stage at diagnosis

Researchers uncover how obesity leads to cancer in epithelial cells

Slight changes in patient's position during radiotherapy may impact survival chances

Scientists find link between soil metals and cancer mortality

UT Southwestern researchers identify 170 potential therapeutic targets for lung cancer

Researchers evaluate accuracy of simple blood test to predict lung cancer

Some human cancers may be result of evolutionary accidents, research finds

Study reports promising novel approach to treat therapy resistant pediatric brain tumors

Study challenges use of whole-brain radiation for small-cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases

Anti-PD-1 treatment reduces tumor size and post-surgical relapse of lung cancer

Cancer Australia launches new framework to improve outcomes for lung cancer patients

Research reveals immune suppressive role of soluble antibodies in tumor progression

Targeting metabolism of key nutrients could be effective in treating squamous cell carcinoma

Experimental peptide drug shows promise against acute myeloid leukemia

Nanotechnology-based treatment approach shown to be effective in mouse models of lung cancer

Novel tool successfully predicts outcomes for lung cancer

Cancer risk increases with longer wait time for diagnostic testing

New class of drug holds potential to help patients with treatment-resistant cancers

Finding new drug target for common form of lung cancer

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