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View Post: When the Diagnosis is "Incurable" Cancer - Fighting Cancer with ...
12 Oct 2009 by Yale University Press  
distributed in air, water, and soil. associated with lung cancer. Nickel used in industry, steel, dental fillings, storage batteries, is associated with nasal, lung and larynx cancers. Lead Acetate used in cotton dyes, metal coatings, ...
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View Post: Researchers identify proteins in lung cancer cells that may ...
25 Nov 2009 by BJS  
While cancers are highly heterogeous in their make-up, the BU researchers believe that a drug that would target this collection of proteins would be effective treatment for most lung cancers. "This is the first statistically validated ...
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View Post: St. Louis Beacon - Why do non-smokers get lung cancer?
25 Nov 2009 by newstip@stlbeacon.org (George Johnson,...  
Importantly, more than two-thirds of the nonsmoker lung cancers were women. Fully 20 percent of the women diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007 had never smoked – one in five! Eight percent of the men diagnosed with lung cancer were ...
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View Post: Australia Leads The Way In Testing For Aggressive Cancers
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View Post: New Blood Test Could Assist in Cancer Detection: Test May Lead to ...
25 Nov 2009
The other 15 per cent of cancers, especially cancers like bone cancers, brain cancers, connective tissue cancers and to a lesser degree, breast cancer and lung cancer, use a method called alternative lengthening of telomeres, or ALT. ...
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Researchers identify proteins in lung ... ...
View Blog: Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Boston University Biomedical Engineering Department have identified a number of proteins whose activation allows them to distinguish between cancer and normal cells with almost 97 percent accuracy. ... While cancers are highly heterogeous in their make-up, the BU researchers believe that a drug that would target this collection of proteins would be effective treatment for most lung cancers.

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View Post: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines: Research Updates, Investing Opportunities
26 Nov 2009 by Mike Havrilla  
ICT-121 may also be beneficial to patients with pancreatic, lung, colon, renal, melanoma, and breast cancers. IND Filings for ICT‐121 are expected for brain tumors in during 1Q10 while IND Filings for ICT‐121 for pancreatic cancer are ...
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