Procedure Improves Outcomes in Lung Cancer Cases
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TUESDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- A combination of intraoperative brachytherapy with sublobar surgical resection improves outcomes for high-risk lung cancer patients, says a new study by researchers at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
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Indianapolis, November 1 (ots/PRNewswire) - New data presented today confirm that advanced lung cancer patients can look forward to better-quality survival when treated with Alimta(R) (pemetrexed), a newly approved anticancer agent in the European Union
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A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list.
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New data presented today confirm that advanced lung cancer patients canlook forward to better-quality survival when treated with Alimta(R)(pemetrexed), a newly approved anticancer agent in the European Unioncompared with Taxotere(R) (docetaxel).
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TUESDAY, Oct 23 (HealthDay News) -- Although it can cost more than $1 million to give a lung cancer patient an added year of life, overall survival from the disease hasn't increased significantly, a new study finds.
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A test can help doctors determine which  lung cancer patients will respond to a leading chemotherapy  drug and avoid ineffective treatments and side effects in those  who don't, Spanish researchers said on Monday.
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Four proteins in the blood  appear to be useful in helping to establish a diagnosis of lung  cancer, North Carolina-based researchers report in the Journal  of Clinical Oncology.
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A new study suggests that screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer doesn't save lives or prevent advanced disease and may lead to unneeded and harmful treatment.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental lung cancer screening test designed to look for precancerous genetic damage could help better identify patients at risk for the disease, while opening up the possibility for earlier diagnoses and preventive treatments, a new study suggests.
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Women whose breast cancer is detected by a mammography have a better prognosis than women whose cancer is detected through other means, a new study finds.
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NEW YORK  - The findings of a new study confirm that lung cancer among nonsmokers is more common in women than in men.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have known for years that radiation treatment following a lumpectomy for breast cancer reduces the risk of disease recurrence.
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SATURDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. researchers say they&#39;ve developed new tests that can determine the precise genetic pathways that lead to lung cancer.
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People who have cancer surgery at facilities designated by the US government as &quot;centers of excellence&quot; are less likely to die soon after the operation.
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The finding will help doctors make better treatment  decisions and may give rise to a new way of halting the advance  of breast cancer, said Dr. Sohail Tavazoie, an oncologist at  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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The addition of radiation therapy to chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery "substantially" improves survival, according to a 20-year followup analysis of a British Columbia trial.
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A drug approved last year as a last-ditch hope for some lung cancer patients who didn&#39;t find relief from other forms of therapy has come up short in a large clinical trial.