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Wait times for chemo jump 10%
Ontario :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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Wait times for chemotherapy are growing longer as the aging population strains Ontario's cancer care system, according to a report by two cancer care advocacy groups. The wait time for 90 per cent of patients to start treatment averaged 73 days last year,...
Tags: lung cancer
Drugs.com: Roche Announces Collaboration to Investigate New Treatment Strategy With Tarceva in Lung Cancer
Basel :: Switzerland | 7 months ago
Credibility Previous results from smaller trials suggest that tumours with mutations are highly sensitive to treatment with Tarceva...This means that patients with these genetic mutations may benefit from earlier treatment with Tarceva, which could lead to significant...
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Cipla can sell cancer drug: HC
New Delhi :: India | 7 months ago
Credibility In a judgment of wide significance, the Delhi High Court on Friday allowed the pharma firm Cipla to manufacture and sell the generic version of the patented lung cancer drug âErlotinibâ of the Swiss pharma firm Hoffman La Roche Ltd. A Division Bench...
Tags: Hoffman La Roche Ltd, Cipla, lung cancer, pharma firm, cancer drug
Urine test could predict risk of lung cancer
Beijing :: China | 7 months ago
Credibility Researchers Sunday said a simple urine test could detect if an individual was at higher risk than most smokers for developing lung cancer. The research, in its preliminary stages, is the first to use biomarkers in urine to delineate lung cancer...
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Test Tells Which Smokers Likely To Get Lung Cancer
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility All Things Considered , April 19, 2009 · A new urine test appears to distinguish which smokers are likely to get lung cancer and which are not by detecting whether smokers have a particular chemical in their urine that's been linked to lung cancer...The...
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Common mutations linked to stroke risk
Washington :: DC :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Millions of people carry two common genetic variants that significantly increase the risk of stroke, researchers have found...It is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., and 50,000 Canadians have strokes each year.
Tags: genetic variant, stroke risk, increase risk, United States, ischemic stroke, lung cancer, common genetic, scientists having
Surgeon caught off guard: Wait, is that a FIR tree in his lung!?
Russian doctors recently operated on a man being 100 percent sure that the patient had lung cancer and they have to remove the tumor but they ended up removing a fir tree out of his lung! The 28 year old patient, Artyom Sidorkin had come to them...
Tags: Lung cancer, fir tree, surgeons, tumor, tree in lung, cough, chest pain, surgery
CBS 27 Central Kentucky (WKYT): Blacks Less Likely to Get Optimal Lung Cancer Treatment
Lyman :: WY :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Black patients with lung cancer are less likely than white patients to receive recommended chemotherapy and surgery, a new study finds. Disparities in lung cancer treatments were as large in 2002 as they were back in the early 1990s, even though there...
Tags: lung cancer, cancer patients
High-dose radiation, chemo combo boosts survival in lung cancer patients
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 7 months ago
Credibility However, the new study suggests that giving chemotherapy at the same time as the radiation, and increasing the doses over the time can improve survival. "When patients are diagnosed with stage III lung cancer, surgery is often not an option, and survival...
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Smokers and the message of death
With effect from the 1st of June, the cigarette packets would have the skull-and-crossbones emblem on the packets. This would be to caution the users that such addiction might hasten the path to the nether world. The skull-and-crossbones are the universally...
Tags: cigarette, skull-and-crossbones, poison, lung cancer
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