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Recent Lung Cancer Headlines of Mar-22-06:

Sputum Test Could Help Screen For Lung Cancer
Mar 22, 2006 ... ... Health) - Testing sputum samples for gene promoter hypermethylation may help identify high-risk patients who are likely to develop lung cancer, according to a ...

Personal Health The Shock of Lung Cancer, When It Strikes ...
New York Times, United States -
Mar 20, 2006... Then, in 1969, Dr. Karnofsky, a 55-year-old nonsmoker, died of lung cancer, caused perhaps by his work with nitrogen mustard in World War II. ...

Living with lung cancer
The News Journal, DE -
Mar 21, 2006Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, among both men and women. ... Most lung cancer deaths could have been prevented. ...

Lung Cancer's Chilling Gender Bias
Mar 22, 2006 ... Q: I was shocked to learn that Dana Reeve, the late Christopher Reeve's wife, died of lung cancer even though she was in her 40s and not a smoker. ...

Gene test holds ‘great promise’ to predict lung cancer
NewKerala.com, India -
Mar 20, 2006Sydney: A new study has found that a test that finds damaged genes in the lungs of people considered at high risk of lung cancer may also be able to predict ...

Gene test 'helps predict lung cancer'
The Age, Australia -
Mar 15, 2006A test that finds damaged genes in the lungs of people considered at high risk of lung cancer may be able to predict who actually develops the deadly disease ...

Gene test helps predict lung cancer, study finds
Reuters.uk, UK -
Mar 16, 2006WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A test that finds damaged genes in the lungs of people considered at high risk of lung cancer might be able to predict who actually ...

Genes May Help Guide Lung Cancer Care
ABC News -
Mar 16, 2006By Amanda Gardner. WEDNESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) — Specific genetic patterns may predict the course of lung cancer, researchers report. ...

Genes May Help Guide Lung Cancer Care
Forbes -
Mar 15, 2006WEDNESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Specific genetic patterns may predict the course of lung cancer, researchers report. The ...

Diabetes Not Tied to Increased Lung Cancer Risk
PakTribune.com, Pakistan -
Mar 16, 2006ISLAMABAD: While studies have shown that the rate of some cancers is increased in patients with diabetes, the risk of lung cancer apparently is not, according ...

Health Tip: Non-Smokers Get Lung Cancer, Too
Forbes -
Mar 17, 2006(HealthDay News) -- The disturbing truth about lung cancer is that while smoking is a primary avoidable cause, non-smokers can contract lung cancer, too. ...

Nonsmokers with lung cancer
Monterey County Herald, CA -
Mar 16, 2006... And they have no idea why more women who have never touched a cigarette get lung cancer than men who have never lit up. Lung cancer ...

Dana Reeve's Death Draws Attention to Lung Cancer
International News Service, Australia -
Mar 15, 2006... Writer. Dana Reeve isn't your typical victim of lung cancer, but she is not a rarity. ... A. Smoking is the biggest cause of lung cancer. Smoking ...

A boost in fight on lung cancer
Denver Post, CO -
Mar 15, 2006In a discovery that offers long- awaited hope for the early detection of lung cancer, researchers say genetic tests on mucus predicted which people eventually ...

Researchers Discover a Unique Molecular Profile for Lung Cancer
Kansas City infoZine, MO -
Mar 17, 2006A team of researchers has found that the expression pattern of certain microRNAs, or miRNAs, may predict tumor aggressiveness in some patients with lung cancer ...

Lung Cancer Clinical Trials
eMaxHealth.com, NC -
Mar 17, 2006A new report says despite a growing body of evidence that continued smoking after a cancer diagnosis has substantial adverse effects on treatment effectiveness ...

CU Researchers Develop Test To Predict Lung Cancer
cbs4denver.com, CO -
Mar 15, 2006... form of cancer. Doctors have found they can basically use spit to find out if someone is likely to get lung cancer. The research ...

Smokes ad model has lung cancer
Daily Telegraph, Australia -
Mar 16, 2006LONDON: A former British model who fronted a multi-million pound cigarette ad campaign said yesterday he had throat cancer. John ...

Lung cancer molecular profile discovered by researchers.
MedIndia, India -
Mar 15, 2006The analysis of these findings indicates that miRNAs may represent a new class of diagnostic and prognostic tools for lung cancer. ...

Depleted Uranium: US Lung Cancer Rates Soar
DisInfo.com, NY -
Mar 17, 2006On average there are 175,000 new cases of lung cancer each year in the United States. For just the months of January and February ...

Who Are Lung Cancer's Victims?
CBS News -
Mar 7, 2006She announced in August 2005 that she had lung cancer and that she had never smoked. The announcement came days after ABC News anchor ...

Reeve's Death Puts Focus on Women's Lung Cancer Risk
Forbes -
Mar 8, 2006... News) -- Experts say it may take the illness and death of Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher Reeve, to finally swing attention to lung cancer's grim toll ...

Dana Reeve's death draws attention to lung cancer
Reuters India, India -
Mar 8, 2006WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lung cancer death of activist Dana Reeve, a non-smoker and widow of "Superman" star Christopher Reeve, has focused attention on what ...

Lung Cancer and Women: A Mysterious Link
ABC News -
Mar 7, 2006Dana Reeve, the widow of the late actor Christopher Reeev, has died of lung cancer. (AP Photo). By JOY VICTORY. March 7, 2006 — Dana ...

Dana Reeve death draws attention to lung cancer
CTV.ca, Canada -
Mar 8, 2006Reeve passed away Monday at the age of 44. She had been battling lung cancer despite never having smoked, nor having been exposed to second-hand smoke. ...

LUNG CANCER'S MYSTERIES: Death puts baffling disease in spotlight
Detroit Free Press, United States -
Mar 8, 2006... She has lung cancer; he doesn't. It's a disease experts say seems to affect genders differently. (ROMAIN BLANQUART/Detroit Free Press). ...

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