Topic: Lung Cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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.Japanese researchers found ...
LONDON (Reuters) - 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.Researchers working with the charity Cancer Research UK ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Anti-estrogen drugs such as tamoxifen" class="inform">tamoxifen 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 ...
Tamoxifen, 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 US peer-reviewed journal Cancer on Monday.Tamoxifen works by blocking estrogen. Previous studies have shown that women ...
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.The researchers followed more than 700,000 randomly selected individuals over a period of six years, including 4,480 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More research is suggesting that heavy smokers may benefit from screening for lung cancer, to detect tumors in their earliest stages.A new study finds that regular smokers who received three-dimensional X-rays to look for the presence of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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.The findings in the European Respiratory ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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 ...
Orbital metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung is an unusual and often ominous presentation of lung cancer. Eye symptoms from the tumor will lead to the diagnosis of the primary source of cancer if not yet known.. In advanced cases of lung cancer, ...
Lung cancer occurs when the cells of the lungs grow out of control. Smoking of tobacco is the primary cause of lung cancer. A person who smokes two or more packs of cigarettes a day has a high risk of developing lung ...
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