Researchers at the University of Colorado Cancer Center have shown that a readily available gene screening test can help doctors know which people with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer will benefit from adding a second cancer drug to standard chemotherapy. Patients who test positive for the EGFR gene may live twice as long as those who [...]
Gene expression test could help determine who needs more aggressive lung cancer treatment. Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test that would help [...]
Scientists at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have developed a risk prediction assessment for lung cancer specifically for African Americans that suggests a greater risk from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a report published in the September issue of Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Etzel and [...]
M. D. Anderson-led team develops first-ever lung cancer population model for African-Americans, expands previous model. Lung cancer risk prediction models are enhanced by taking into account risk factors by race and by measuring DNA repair capacity, according to research teams led by epidemiologists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in two [...]
Nonsmokers also contract lung cancer, despite of healthy lifestyle they conduct. This means that while it is clear how smokers can avoid the disease, more needs to be done to help nonsmokers avoid lung cancer. A study by researchers from American Cancer Society looked at the data of lifelong nonsmokers living North America, Europe, and [...]
Blacks with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — including chronic bronchitis and some types of serious chronic asthma — have a risk for developing lung cancer about twice as high as that of whites with the condition, according to a study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, Reuters reports. For the study, lead researcher Carol [...]
Empathy is important in patient-physician communication and is associated with improved patient satisfaction and adherence to physicians’ recommendations. To evaluate empathic opportunities and physician responses, we conducted a qualitative thematic analysis of 20 audiorecorded, transcribed consultations between patients with lung cancer and their thoracic surgeons or oncologists, from a larger observational study of 137 patients [...]
Movie star and a good man Paul Newman died today of cancer at age 83. Many people and funs have been asking what kind of cancer did Paul Newman have. It was lung cancer. Paul Newman had been battling lung cancer since June 2008. He pulled out of directing a stage production of John Steinbeck’s [...]
All of us at Lung Cancer Alliance, our Board, our advocates and the patients, families and caregivers we represent, extend our deepest sympathy to the wife and family of Paul Newman. Mr. Newman was an icon of the American stage and film, loved by audiences around the world. He and his devoted and equally talented [...]
While lung cancer in smokers and former smokers is the biggest cancer killer by far, lung cancer in people who have never smoked is – by itself – the sixth biggest cancer killer in the United States. “Most people are not aware that lung cancer among non-smokers has such an enormous impact,” said Lung Cancer [...]
