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View Post: Lung cancer : symptoms, diagnosis and treatment
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View Post: An Article on Cancer
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View Blog: People get lung cancer most of the time from smoking tobacco which is said to have carcinogenic substance mainly known as tobacco smoke. Some carcinogens include certain chemicals, the Sun's ultraviolet light, and radiation. ... Therefore a treatment name immune enhancing drugs or antibodies are also used to help build back up the immune system and to destroy abnormal cells. There has been an anticancer drug that kills cancer cells while leaving the good ones alive.

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View Post: Novel test may speed up war against cancer dna circles, journal ...
22 Nov 2009 by ANI  
The advance, made by researchers at the Children's Medical Research Institute, could speed up development of new types of anti-cancer drugs. It could also lead to blood screening for early detection of some aggressive tumours and to monitor ... Washington, Nov 11 (ANI): Scientists from the Imperial College of London have found a promising drug for the treatment of an aggressive form of lung cancer. The drug eliminated small cell lung cancer tumours in 50 percent of mice, ...
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View Post: Mesothelioma: Mesothelioma: Questions and Answers
4 hours ago by indonesiatoday editor  
In addition to mesothelioma, exposure to asbestos increases the risk of lung cancer, asbestosis (a noncancerous, chronic lung ailment), and other cancers, such as those of the larynx and kidney. .... Chemotherapy is the use of anticancer drugs to kill cancer cells throughout the body. Most drugs used to treat mesothelioma are given by injection into a vein (intravenous, or IV). Doctors are also studying the effectiveness of putting chemotherapy directly into the chest or ...
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View Post: Novel test may speed up war against cancer
22 Nov 2009 by Ani  
The advance, made by researchers at the Children's Medical Research Institute, could speed up development of new types of anti-cancer drugs. It could also lead to blood screening for early detection of some aggressive tumours and to .... stanleyyork safety & efficacy of subcutaneous methylnaltrexone on opioid-induced constipation in cancer ppl http://bit.ly/6YG9HP; stanleyyork Liverpools lung cancer pioneer honoured with MBE: THE man who founded the Roy Castle Lung Cancer ...
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View Post: Drug-radiation eliminates lung cancer from medicineworld.org
9 Nov 2009
Several components of the signaling pathways, including PI3K, have been investigated as possible anti-cancer drug targets. The investigational drug BEZ235 is currently being tested in clinical trials against PI3K and another signaling ...
View Blog: Lung cancer blog from medicineworld.org - http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lung/lung-cancer-blog.html

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View Post: Vitamin C - Pharmacists reveals unbiased truth on the anti-cancer ...
22 Nov 2009
It is well known through population studies that low levels of vitamin C increases the risk of prostate, stomach, colon, mouth and lung cancer. However, it is less clear whether taking large (megadose) of vitamin C could prevent cancer. .... What drugs could lower the levels of vitamin C in our body? The following drugs may cause your body to use up more of this vitamin than normal. Aspirin (ASA); Diuretics ("Water Pills" such as Lasix); Female Hormones (Birth Control ...
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View Post: Phase 2 trial of plinabulin (NPI-2358) for the treatment of ...
23 Nov 2009
This trial, also known as ADVANCE (Assessment of Docetaxel and Vascular Disruption in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer), is investigating plinabulin in combination with docetaxel compared to docetaxel alone in patients with advanced NSCLC who ... plasma uric acid (PUA) levels in adult patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and solid tumor malignancies who are receiving anti-cancer therapy expected to result in tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) and subsequent elevations of plasma uric acid. ...
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View Post: Nrf2 Enhances Cell Proliferation and Resistance to Anticancer ...
18 May 2009 by Homma, S., Ishii, Y., Morishima, Y., Yamadori,...  
In this study, therefore, the role of Nrf2 in cancer cell proliferation and resistance to anticancer drugs was investigated. Experimental Design: We used three human lung cancer cell lines with different degrees of Nrf2 activation: Nrf2 ...
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View Post: Healthy Hints » Blog Archive » Lung cancer: causes, types ...
8 Nov 2009 by Simona  
Surgery is usually considered only in cases in which the tumor is still relatively small and has not spread beyond the lung. Anticancer drugs and radiotherapy may be used in order to contain the spread of the tumor and to treat any ...
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