Consuming a variety of fruit may reduce the risk of lung cancer by up to 23 percent, according to a new study. Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables per day is one of the means that experts most frequently recommend for preventing cancer. Now, the European EPIC study carried out by researchers from 10 [...]
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Body fluid odours may help detect lung cancer in early stages
January 27th, 2010 |
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Washington, Jan 27 (ANI): A new study by American researchers has shown that changes in body fluid odours can be used to identify presence of lung cancer tumours.
The research by scientists at the Monell Center and collaborators may help in methods to identify potential diagnostic biomarkers for lung cancer in human urine.
Monell biologist Gary K. [...]
Scientists create lung tissue from human embryonic stem cells
November 5th, 2009 |
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In a breakthrough study, scientists from Free University of Brussels, Belgium have successfully created lung tissue with human embryonic stem cells.
The new discovery would provide an alternative to lung transplants patients with lung injury due to chronic pulmonary disease and inherited genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
The research team could successfully differentiate human embryonic stem [...]
Woman dies after 60 years in iron lung
October 31st, 2009 |
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An Australian woman who spent a record-breaking 60 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio died Saturday in a Melbourne nursing home, aged 83. June Middleton was paralysed when she entered the respiratory chamber in 1949, aged 23, and doctors gave her a slim chance of
Unique ‘smell print’ in patients’ breath may help improve lung cancer diagnosis
August 3rd, 2009 |
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An expert at the University of Colorado Cancer Center says that analysis of specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs)—gasses emitted from certain solids or liquids such as paint—may provide new diagnostic tools for lung cancer patients.
Dr. Nir Peled, Fulbright Scholar at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, that these compounds have been found to be [...]
Molecule key to non-smoking lung cancer identified
July 28th, 2009 |
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Scientists from Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Centre and at the National Cancer Institute have identified a protein that appears to play a vital role in lung cancer in non-smokers.
They hope that the new discovery could lead to improved therapy for lung cancer in both never-smokers and smokers, including those with tumours resistant to targeted [...]
Surgery could be an option for advanced lung cancer patients
July 27th, 2009 |
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Surgery after standard chemotherapy and radiation can be an option for patients with a certain type of advanced lung cancer.
Oncologists have recently been debating if surgery would benefit such patients or not.
The new research revealed that surgery significantly prolongs survival without progression of the lung cancer, but does not dramatically improve overall survival compared to [...]
Early exposure to ultrafine air pollution linked to lung disease in adulthood
July 23rd, 2009 |
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A new study has revealed that early exposure to environmental factors such as allergens, pollutants, and respiratory viruses might put infants at an increased risk of lung disease in adulthood.
It can lead to pulmonary inflammatory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma later in life.
The researchers from Louisiana State University, New Orleans [...]
Ovary removal ‘ups lung cancer risk’
July 22nd, 2009 |
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Women who have premature menopause due to medical interventions are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer, says a new study.
The study has been published in the International Journal of Cancer.
The startling link was made by epidemiologists from the Université de Montréal, the Research Centre of the Centre Hospitalier de l”Université de Montréal [...]
Common cold virus may help treat cystic fibrosis
July 21st, 2009 |
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Scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have found what may be the most efficient way to deliver a corrected gene to lung cells derived from cystic fibrosis patients, renewing hope that gene therapy for CF lung disease could be a successful future treatment.
Scientists have worked for 20 [...]
How flu virus attacks the lungs
July 18th, 2009 |
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Shedding new light on how influenza virus attacks the lungs, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Southern Research Institute has provided targets for new treatments.
Writing about their findings in the online edition of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, the researchers have revealed that [...]