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| | Lung Cancer Book Section of the CancerNews.com service. Books related to lung cancer treatment, prevention, screening, survival and support.... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Elderly
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| | Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States for both men and women. In the United States, 80% of patients with lung cancer have non-small cell lung cancer, while the ... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Who is a Candidate for Surgery?: An Emerging Role for PET Scanning
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| | Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and continues to have a poor survival. Complete surgical resection offers the best chance for cure. This article describes the p... [more]
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| Medically Inoperable Lung Cancer
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| | Surgery remains the treatment of choice for patients with stage I and II (early stage) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).(1,2) However, a substantial number of patients are medically inoperable becau... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) of Lung Tumors
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| | RFA is a promising local therapy that has evolved rapidly in recent years for the treatment of primary and secondary cancers in the lung. The feasibility and safety profile in humans are well establis... [more]
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| Small Cell Lung Cancer: Combination radiotherapy and chemotherapy studied by M. D. Anderson
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| | Treating limited stage small cell lung cancer (LSCL) with a combination of accelerated high-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy has shown encouraging results, opening the door to larger scale investiga... [more]
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| The Role of Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery in the Management of Lung Cancer
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| | The use of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has allowed surgeons to perform complex procedures that previously required a thoracotomy, an open chest procedure. Over the past several years, the ... [more]
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| Mesothelioma: Questions and Answers
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| | Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer in which malignant (cancerous) cells are found in the mesothelium, a protective sac that covers most of the body’s internal organs,... [more]
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| Lung Cancer Research: Biomarkers may lead to personalized treatment in lung cancer patients
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| | Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered biomarkers that predict which patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer will respond to a combination treatment of the anti-inflamma... [more]
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| Lung Cancer Prognosis: PET imaging effective in predicting lung cancer outcomes
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| | CLEVELAND – Advanced imaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans shows great promise in predicting which patients with inoperable lung cancer have more aggressive tumors and need additional ... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Key Immune Cells Predict Recurrence in Lung Cancer Patients
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| | DURHAM, NC – Patients treated surgically for early-stage lung cancer face an increased risk of recurrence if their tumors contain a large number of cells that act as "dimmer switches" on the immune... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Study Shows No Reduction in Lung Cancer Deaths after CT Screening
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| | Tampa, FL (March 6, 2007) – The first report of an international study looking at computed tomography (CT) to screen current or former smokers for lung cancer found that screening did not reduce death... [more]
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