Pfizer halts enrollment in lung cancer trial

Hospital Transplants Cancerous Lungs: Patient Dies...

By: instgtr

Saying "Using donor lungs from smokers is not unusual"  Papworth Hospital in London England transplanted the CANCEROUS lungs of a smoker into 31 year old Matthew Millington, an Iraq war veteran who was told he needed a double lung transplant... Within a year, Millington was dead.  The hospital has said, "The number of lung transplants ...

about 1 month ago

Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Announces Recipients of 2009 Komen ...

By: patelashishme0932

Dallas – October 27, 2009 – Three researchers who have focused much of their careers on developing targeted therapies that both lower the risk of developing hormone-sensitive breast cancers and effectively treat the disease are this year’s winners of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Brinker Award for Scientific ...

about 1 month ago

Green tea may help fight oral cancer

By: intellectual

LONDON - Five cups of green tea every day can cut the risk of developing certain blood cancers, say researchers. The much touted beverage, drunk in China, Japan and the Middle East, has been previously shown to have a host of benefits including staving off cancers, helping the heart, boosting the brain and lowering levels of “bad” ...

5 days ago

Cancer research: an endless war?

By: DrMoskowitz

Cancer research: another endless war?   America’s longest war, the current conflict in Afghanistan, now in its eighth year, has cost far fewer lives and dollars than our country’s nearly forty year-long War on Cancer, begun by President Nixon in 1970. Both still seem to have no end in sight.   The latest strategy in ...

18 days ago