http://infoaboutlungcancer.com/topic/lung-cancer2011-11-17T15:00:11Z2011-11-17T15:00:11ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-11-17:/soy-eaters-rates-lung-cancer-4858978a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - People who eat a lot of unfermented soy products like tofu may have a smaller chance of getting lung cancer, a fresh look at past research suggests.</p><p>There is still no proof that soy itself is protective, but compounds in the soy called isoflavones have been shown to slow cancer cell growth in the lab.</p><p>Because researchers studying the link between diet and lu...

2011-11-08T14:30:27ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-11-08:/link-selenium-lung-cancer-risk-4852780a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - Despite some evidence tying the mineral selenium to a reduced risk of lung cancer, a new long-term study sees no connection between the two.</p><p>In fact, researchers found that among heavy smokers, those with the highest selenium levels had a greater risk of dying from lung cancer than those with the lowest levels.</p><p>The reason for that finding is not known, and i...

2011-10-28T16:00:08ZReuters Environmental Online Reporttag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-10-28:/air-pollution-tied-lung-cancer-nonsmokers-4849803a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - People who have never smoked, but who live in areas with higher air pollution levels, are roughly 20 percent more likely to die from lung cancer than people who live with cleaner air, researchers conclude in a new study.</p><p>"It's another argument for why the regulatory levels (for air pollutants) be as low as possible," said <span>Francine Laden</span>, a professor a...

2011-08-18T02:00:07ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-08-18:/study-finds-sniffer-dogs-smell-lung-cancer-4820888a/

<div><p><span>LONDON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - German scientists experimenting with sniffer dogs have found they can accurately detect lung cancer by smelling breath samples.</p><p>In a study carried out by researchers from <span>Schillerhoehe Hospital</span> in <span><a title="Germany" href="/topic/Germany" >Germany</a></span>, the dogs were able to correctly detect lung tumors in 71 percent of patients, suggesting a simila...

2011-07-17T19:30:08ZReuters Life! Online Reporttag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-07-17:/lung-cancer-scans-unreliable-study-4807927a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span> Life!) - CT scans to measure lung tumors can be unreliable, potentially leading patients and doctors to believe cancer is growing when it's not, according to a study.</p><p>In principle, that could mean stopping a treatment that is actually keeping the tumor in check, researchers said in the study, which they said was the first to test how reliable lung cancer scans are, and appe...

2011-06-30T09:30:20ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-06-30:/analysis-life-saving-lung-cancer-test-set-cost-debate-4800828a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - A landmark study showing that routine lung screening of heavy smokers and former smokers using low dose CT scans could save thousands of lives is sure to set off a fierce debate about the cost of such testing on an overburdened healthcare system.</p><p>The <span><a title="National Cancer Institute" href="/topic/National+Cancer+Institute" >U.S. National Cancer Institute</a></sp...

2011-06-19T09:30:30ZAFP European Editiontag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-06-19:/peace-protester-brian-haw-dies-4795740a/

<div><p>Brian Haw, a peace campaigner who sat outside the <a title="Houses of Parliament" href="/topic/Houses+of+Parliament" >Houses of Parliament</a> for a decade in protest at the wars in <a title="Afghanistan" href="/topic/Afghanistan" >Afghanistan</a> and <a title="Iraq" href="/topic/Iraq" >Iraq</a>, has died aged 62, his family said.</p><p>The former carpenter died Saturday after a long battle with lung cancer, for which he had finally to give up his vigil on Parliament Square.</p><p>Haw be...

2011-06-03T10:00:09ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-06-03:/roches-tarceva-helps-lung-cancer-patients-4789167a/

<div><p><span>ZURICH</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <span><a title="F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd." href="/topic/F.+Hoffman-La+Roche+Ltd." >Roche Holding AG</a></span>'s cancer drug <a title="Tarceva" href="/topic/Tarceva" >Tarceva</a> nearly doubles the time patients with a distinct type of lung cancer live without their disease getting worse, a late-stage trial showed on Friday.</p><p>The data will be presented at this year's <span><...

2011-05-05T11:00:37ZReuters US Online Report Domestic Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-05-05:/exsmoker-sue-illness-calif-court-4776762a/

<div><p><span><a title="San Francisco" href="/topic/San+Francisco" >SAN FRANCISCO</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - <a title="California" href="/topic/California" >California</a> law allows an ex-smoker with lung cancer to sue <span><a title="Altria Group Inc." href="/topic/Altria+Group+Inc." >Philip Morris USA</a></span>, even though she filed the case years after she had been diagnosed with a separate smoking-related disease, ...

2011-04-20T18:30:08ZReuters US Online Report Entertainment Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-04-20:/tv-radio-musician-dead-lung-cancer-36-4770603a/

<div><p><span><a title="Los Angeles" href="/topic/Los+Angeles" >LOS ANGELES</a></span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - The bass player with alternative rock band <a title="TV on the Radio" href="/topic/TV+on+the+Radio" >TV on the Radio</a> died on Wednesday after a battle with lung cancer, the group said. <span><a title="Gerard Smith" href="/topic/Gerard+Smith" >Gerard Smith</a></span> was 36.</p><p>"We are very sad to announce the death...

2011-03-25T15:00:29ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-03-25:/working-mustard-gas-linked-lung-cancer-4758945a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - Workers involved in mustard-gas production during the World War II era showed heightened odds of lung cancer at a relatively young age -- with the excess risk fading in old age, a new study finds.</p><p>Japanese researchers found that of workers employed at a poisonous-gas factory between 1929 and 1945, those directly involved in producing mustard gas saw their risk of ...

2011-03-21T13:30:14ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-03-21:/counting-lung-cancer-cells-helps-predict-disease-4756850a/

<div><p><span>LONDON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - British scientists have found that counting the number of lung cancer cells circulating in a patient's blood could help determine how aggressive the cancer is and predict the best treatment to use.</p><p>Researchers working with the charity <span><a title="Cancer Research UK" href="/topic/Cancer+Research+UK" >Cancer Research UK</a></span> looked at the number of circulating tumo...

2011-01-24T10:30:14ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-01-24:/antiestrogens-linked-lung-cancer-deaths-4733355a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - Anti-estrogen drugs such as <span id="<a title="Tamoxifen" href="/topic/Tamoxifen" >tamoxifen</a>" class="inform">tamoxifen</span> may reduce a woman's risk of dying from lung cancer, suggests a new study. The analysis included a very small number of women with lung cancer, however, and the findings do not mean that women should take these drugs to prevent or treat lung...

2011-01-24T03:30:21ZAFP Global Editiontag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-01-24:/drug-guard-lung-cancer-death-4733199a/

<div><p><a title="Tamoxifen" href="/topic/Tamoxifen" >Tamoxifen</a>, a drug commonly used to treat breast cancer, may also help reduce the risk of death from lung cancer, said a study published in the <a title="United States" href="/topic/United+States" >US</a> peer-reviewed journal Cancer on Monday.</p><p>Tamoxifen works by blocking estrogen. Previous studies have shown that women undergoing hormone replacement therapy to boost estrogen during menopause showed an increased risk of dying from lu...

2011-01-05T03:30:11ZAFP Global Editiontag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2011-01-05:/tb-patients-face-higher-lung-cancer-risk-study-4725400a/

<div><p>Tuberculosis patients are 11 times more likely than the average to develop lung cancer, according to a new study published by a group of Taiwanese scientists.</p><p>The researchers followed more than 700,000 randomly selected individuals over a period of six years, including 4,480 diagnosed with tuberculosis, they said in a statement Wednesday.</p><p>"The incidence of lung cancer in these tuberculosis patients was 11 times greater than people without tuberculosis," said one of the resear...

2010-12-28T12:30:17ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-12-28:/signs-lung-cancer-screening-save-lives-4721031a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - More research is suggesting that heavy smokers may benefit from screening for lung cancer, to detect tumors in their earliest stages.</p><p>A new study finds that regular smokers who received three-dimensional X-rays to look for the presence of early tumors had a significantly lower risk of dying over a 10-year period.</p><p>The results are in keeping with those of a mu...

2010-12-17T15:00:34ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-12-17:/lung-cancer-screen-license-smoke-4715410a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - Dutch researchers have found that men who screen negative for lung cancer are a bit less likely to try to quit smoking than men whose scan is inconclusive and requires follow up.</p><p>The findings in the <span><a title="European Respiratory Society" href="/topic/European+Respiratory+Society" >European Respiratory Journal</a></span> add to the debate over whether patien...

2010-12-10T12:00:41ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-12-10:/broccoli-fight-lung-cancer-nonsmokers-4710427a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - Some studies have hinted that eating your broccoli might help prevent lung cancer. But a new study of non-smoking women finds no strong link between compounds found in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and lower risk of lung cancer.</p><p>The study, of nearly 1,000 non-smoking Chinese women with and without lung cancer, found no overall association between the wom...

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2010-11-09T14:30:49ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-11-09:/work-exposure-diesel-fumes-tied-lung-cancer-4377419a/

<div><p><span>NEW YORK</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters Health</a></span>) - Miners, railway workers and others with years of on-the-job exposure to diesel exhaust may have a heightened risk of developing lung cancer, a new research analysis suggests.</p><p>The study, which combined the results from 11 previous studies in <span><a title="Europe" href="/topic/Europe" >Europe</a></span> and <span><a title="Canada" href="/topic/Canada" >Canada</a><...

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2010-11-04T13:31:30ZAFP Global Editiontag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-11-04:/ct-screening-cuts-lung-cancer-death-xray-study-4168712a/

<div><p>Previous studies have shown that helical CT scanning can identify small tumors in the early stages of growth better than X-rays.</p><p>"But it's never been shown before conclusively that the procedure has an effect on the ultimate outcome, namely lung cancer mortality," <span><a title="Harold Varmus" href="/topic/Harold+Varmus" >Harold Varmus</a></span>, head of the <span><a title="National Cancer Institute" href="/topic/National+Cancer+Institute" >National Cancer Institute</a></span>, t...

2010-11-04T12:31:11ZReuters US Online Report Top Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-11-04:/spiral-ct-scans-reduce-smoker-deaths-study-4165603a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - Screening smokers and former smokers for lung tumors using three-dimensional X-rays reduced their risk of dying from lung cancer by 20 percent, researchers said on Thursday.</p><p>The study sponsored by the <span><a title="National Cancer Institute" href="/topic/National+Cancer+Institute" >U.S. National Cancer Institute</a></span> is the first to show that people can be scre...

2010-11-04T11:02:27ZAP Featurestag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-11-04:/study-ct-scans-modestly-cut-lung-cancer-deaths-4165566a/

<div><p>Screening heavy smokers with a special type of CT scan modestly reduces lung cancer deaths, the <span><a title="National Cancer Institute" href="/topic/National+Cancer+Institute" >National Cancer Institute</a></span> announced Thursday &#8212; the first clear evidence that a screening test may help fight the nation's top cancer killer.</p><p>At issue are controversial spiral CT scans, where a rotating scanner views the lungs at various angles to spot growths when they're about half the s...

2010-11-04T10:30:27ZReuters US Online Report Health Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-11-04:/spiral-ct-scans-reduce-smoker-deaths-study-4165438a/

<div><p><span>WASHINGTON</span> (<span><a title="Reuters Group plc" href="/topic/Reuters+Group+plc" >Reuters</a></span>) - "Spiral" CT scans cut lung cancer deaths in smokers by 20 percent, researchers reported on Thursday in a finding that validates a controversial theory that screening can save lives.</p><p>The low-dose scans, a type of X-ray that gives a more complete picture of the lung, apparently catch tumors early, before they have spread, a team sponsored by the <span><a title="National ...

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2010-03-30T22:02:25ZAP Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-03-30:/photo/unproven-remedies-celebrities-1876648p/

FILE - This 1980 file photo shows <a title="Steve McQueen" href="/topic/Steve+McQueen" >Steve McQueen</a> in "The Hunter." When conventional medicine failed to halt his mesothelioma, a cancer of the lung lining, McQueen traveled to <a title="Mexico" href="/topic/Mexico" >Mexico</a>, where he was treated with everything from coffee enemas to laetrile, the now debunked remedy involving apricot pits. (AP Photo/File) <div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2009  <a href="http://www.ap.org">AP N...

2010-04-11T17:06:46ZAP Newstag:infoaboutlungcancer.com,2010-04-11:/photo/cyprus-talks-794002p/

this May 1, 2004 file photo shows former <a title="Tassos Papadopoulos" href="/topic/Tassos+Papadopoulos" >Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos</a> who died from lung cancer on Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. Papadopoulos, 74, was admitted to <a title="Nicosia General Hospital" href="/topic/Nicosia+General+Hospital" >Nicosia General Hospital</a> with severe breathing problems and was diagnosed with lung cancer. Papadopoulos was president of the ethnically divided island from 2003 to 2008. He led Greek ...