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News: February 14, 2012
Radiation After Lung Cancer Surgery Doesn't Help All: Study
MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- For older people with a certain type and stage of lung cancer, administering radiation treatment after surgery may not extend survival, according to a new study. Radiation is not without risks, and the new study...
Test Might Predict Risk of Lung Cancer's Return
THURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new industry-funded study suggests that a molecular test can provide insight into whether patients are at high risk of a relapse after surgical treatment for a form of lung cancer. The test, which is current...
Tests Might Someday Help Spot Early Lung Cancer
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the world, and only about 15 percent of cases are diagnosed at an early stage, when it's most treatable. But two preliminary studies that are scheduled to be presen...
Mixed News on Tough-to-Treat Lung Cancer
TUESDAY, Jan. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Dutch researchers report disappointing results from an early clinical trial of the drug Nexavar (sorafenib) in fighting a tough-to-treat form of lung cancer. But, in better news, an experimental drug known as g...
Targeted Drugs, Lung CT Screening Top Cancer Advances in 2011
TUESDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- As the war against cancer continues, a group representing U.S. oncologists has picked its "Top Five" list of advances in cancer care for 2011. Leading the list are approvals for a bevy of new, targeted drugs for...
Lung Cancer's Hidden Victims: Those Who Never Smoked
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Opera legend Beverly Sills never smoked. Neither did actress and health advocate Dana Reeve, wife of the late actor Christopher Reeve. And yet in 2007 and 2006, respectively, both joined the ranks of about 32,000...
New Treatment May Boost Survival in Advanced Lung Cancer Cases
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, "epigenetic" therapy has shown promise in patients with solid tumors, in this case non-small cell lung cancers. Of 45 patients in a trial of this experimental treatment, two had a complete ...
Too Much Drinking May Raise Lung Cancer Risk: Study
THURSDAY, Oct. 27 (HealthDay News) -- While smoking has long been linked to cancer, its frequent companion, drinking, may be as well, a new study suggests. Three new studies presented at a medical meeting this week find a link between heavy boozin...
X-Ray Screening Doesn't Prevent Lung Cancer Deaths: Study
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Using chest X-rays to screen for lung cancer doesn't prevent deaths from the disease, a new study finds. "There really was no benefit of the screening," said study co-author Dr. Christine Berg, chief of the e...
Experimental Vaccine Shows Promise for Lung Cancer: Study
MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that physicians may be able to strengthen the power of chemotherapy in patients with the most common form of lung cancer by adding a cancer vaccine to the treatment. The combined treatment ...
Lung Cancer Rates Begin to Decline for U.S. Women
THURSDAY, Sept. 15 (HealthDay News) -- The rate of new lung cancer cases among American women is finally beginning to decline, much as it has for men in for years, a new U.S. government report shows. New cases of lung malignancies fell by 2.2 perc...
Xalkori Approved for Advanced Lung Cancer
MONDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Xalkori (crizotinib) and a companion diagnostic test have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a certain genetic abnormality, the agenc...
Sniffer Dogs Spot Early Stage Lung Cancer: Study
THURSDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Trained sniffer dogs are able to detect lung cancer in its early stages, researchers have found. The dogs could identify volatile organic compounds that are linked to the presence of cancer on people's breath,...
Elderly Lung Cancer Patients Can Gain From Two-Drug Chemo: Study
MONDAY, Aug. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Countering conventional wisdom, researchers in France say that elderly lung cancer patients can gain significant benefit from an aggressive, double-barreled chemotherapy that's often used in younger patients. The...
Tarceva Battles Lung Cancer in Some
THURSDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that the targeted cancer drug Tarceva nearly triples the amount of time lung cancer patients survive without a recurrence and has fewer side effects than standard chemotherapy. The authors o...
Experimental Drug Bests Chemo in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Study
TUESDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- A drug designed to treat certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer boosts survival time without progression of cancer by several months, according to a new study. The findings reveal that the drug, known ...
Who Should Get a CT Scan to Screen for Lung Cancer?
THURSDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- Annual low-dose CT scans cut the death rate from lung cancer by 20 percent in heavy smokers and formerly heavy smokers, compared to those who get annual chest X-rays, according to the results of a major Nation...
Taking Chemo Drug Continuously Delayed Lung Cancer's Return
SUNDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- While most patients with advanced lung cancer only take four courses of two chemotherapy drugs and then stop until recurrence occurs, continuing treatment with one of those drugs may delay return of the deadly di...
Nearly 20% of Lung Cancer Patients Keep Smoking
FRIDAY, April 8 (HealthDay News) -- Many patients diagnosed with lung cancer -- as well as their family caregivers -- continue to smoke even though doing so may jeopardize their recovery and long-term health outcome, says a study sponsored by the ...
HPV Might Be Linked to Lung Cancer
MONDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted virus that accounts for most cases of cervical cancer, may also play a role in lung cancer, researchers report. In other smaller studies, HPV has been fo...
Blood Test Holds Hope for Spotting Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers
MONDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that a blood test could offer evidence that a nonsmoker has lung cancer, potentially giving doctors a new diagnostic tool. About one in four people who develop lung cancer have neve...
Lung Cancer Evolves With Treatment, Study Finds
WEDNESDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new study helps explain how some lung cancers become resistant to targeted drug therapy. Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center analyzed tumor samples from 37 patients with non-sma...
Invisible and Odorless, Radon Poses Risks to Lungs
FRIDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- It may be hard to think of radiation as a present and serious environmental health concern in the United States, much less one with the potential to affect nearly every home in the country. But a radioactive ga...
Breast Cancer Drug May Also Help Lung Cancer Patients
MONDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- The anti-estrogen drug that transformed the treatment of breast cancer three decades ago may also reduce the risk of dying from lung cancer, researchers say. In a study published in the Jan. 24 online edition of...
Deadliest Cancer Getting Smaller Chunk of Research Dollars
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Consider this: Lung cancer is the most deadly form of cancer in the United States, killing about 157,300 people every year -- more than colon, breast and prostate cancer combined, according to the U.S. Nation...
Rash Due to Lung Cancer Drug May Be Linked to Better Survival
MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Lung cancer patients who develop a rash after treatment with the drug cetuximab (Erbitux) have better outcomes, according to a new study. German researchers compared hundreds of patients with non-small cell lung...
Gene Research Sheds Light on Lung Cancer Survival Time
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Genes that predict length of survival and help guide treatment for patients with non-small cell lung cancer have been identified by U.S. researchers. The investigators took samples of lung tumors and nearby h...
Road Material in N. Dakota May Up Lung Cancer Risk: Study
MONDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to a mineral found on gravel roads in North Dakota may significantly increase the risk of a type of lung cancer called mesothelioma, says a new study. Erionite, which is often found in volcanic ash that...
Whites, Blacks More Likely to Develop Lung Cancer: Study
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Whites and blacks in the United States are much more likely to develop lung cancer than other racial/ethnic groups, a new federal study finds. Researchers analyzed 1998 to 2006 data from 38 states and the Dis...
Lung Cancer in Smokers, Nonsmokers May Be a Different Disease
MONDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that lung cancer in people who have never smoked may be a different disease than it is in smokers. Scientists compared the genetic characteristics of lung cancer tumors in 30 people who neve...
CT Scans Seem to Lower Lung Cancer Death Rates
THURSDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose CT scans cut mortality rates in older, current or former heavy smokers by 20 percent, a major U.S. government study finds. Given the large numbers of Americans who...
Asthma Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Study
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- University of Missouri researchers believe they have found a correlation between asthma and lung cancer in a small study. Previous research has shown a correlation between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
Diabetes Drugs Might Lower Risk of Lung Cancer
TUESDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that drugs used to treat diabetes may indeed both prevent and contain lung cancer. The findings, being presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Va...
Race Doesn't Seem to Predict Lung Cancer Survival in Blacks
SATURDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Race does not appear to play a role in how long a black patient or a white patient with lung cancer will ultimately survive the disease, researchers report. "In simple terms, if 100 patients who are [white] and...
Diabetes Drug Metformin Linked to Lower Lung Cancer Rate in Mice
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A drug widely used to treat high blood sugar in type 2 diabetics may hold some promise in the prevention of tobacco-induced lung cancer, according to extremely preliminary findings in a mouse study. In the Se...
Can Fruits, Veggies Help Ward Off Lung Cancer?
TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables may help protect some smokers from lung cancer, a new European study suggests. But, the researchers stressed that quitting smoking will do far more to reduce risk ...
Avastin Largely Safe for Patients With Type of Advanced Lung Cancer
TUESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer drug Avastin, when used in combination with standard chemotherapy, is safe and can effectively treat an advanced form of one of the most common lung cancers, researchers report. Previously it had bee...
Researchers Report Treatment Headway Against Lung Cancer
SATURDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report they prolonged survival for some patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, for whom the median survival is currently only about six months. One study discovered that an experimental ...
Don't Count on Selenium to Prevent Lung Cancer Recurrence
SATURDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- Taking the popular mineral supplement selenium doesn't reduce the likelihood of lung cancer recurrence, a new study reveals. Lead author Dr. Daniel D. Karp, a professor in the department of thoracic/head and ne...
Single Lung Tumor Contains 50,000 Mutated Genes
WEDNESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Malignant lung tumors may contain not one, not two, but potentially tens of thousands of genetic mutations which, together, contribute to the development of the cancer. A sample from a lung tumor from a heavy ...
Post-Chemo Treatment May Boost Lung Cancer Survival
THURSDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Among people with non-small-cell lung cancer, treatment with the drug erlotinib (Tarceva) after chemotherapy appears to slightly boost survival rates, a new study suggests. Non-small-cell lung cancer makes up a...
Matching Tumor Types to Drugs Boosts Lung Cancer Outcomes
SUNDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) -- The number one cancer killer, lung cancer, may be more susceptible to treatment when doctors match up targeted drugs to tumors with key genetic traits, a new study finds. The study -- the first of its kind -- f...
Lung Cancer Increase in Women Tied to Genes, Estrogen
MONDAY, April 19 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers working with mice report they've gained insight into why lung cancer rates are going up in women, including those who don't smoke. In a new study, they say they've found that smoke exposure leads to...
Blacks Hit Hardest by Lung Cancer
TUESDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks are hit the hardest when it comes to both developing and dying from lung cancer. A new report from the American Lung Association paints a grim picture of how environmental factors, biological factors, c...
Simple Test May Spot Early Lung Cancer
WEDNESDAY, April 7 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers may have found an easy way to detect lung cancer in its early or even pre-cancerous stages, as well as a way to reverse the start of the deadly disease with a readily available, over-the-counter d...
Chemo May Boost Survival After Lung Cancer Surgery
WEDNESDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- Chemotherapy improves survival for patients with operable non-small cell lung cancer, say researchers who reviewed nearly 50 studies. The first meta-analysis of 34 studies involving almost 8,500 patients (an...
Gene Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Non-Smokers
MONDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified gene variations linked with an increased risk for lung cancer in people who have never smoked. The international research team analyzed DNA from more than 1,000 people with lung canc...
Radiation May Help Those With Inoperable Lung Tumors
TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- A carefully targeted and powerful regimen of radiation therapy kept early-stage lung tumors stable in patients who had inoperable cancers. Almost 56 percent of patients who underwent the therapy, called stereo...
Genetic Variant Raises Lung Cancer Risk
TUESDAY, March 9 (HealthDay News) -- People with a particular genetic trait are at much higher risk of developing lung cancer from exposure to secondhand smoke than others, even if they rarely come into contact with it, a new study finds. Research...
Information Gap Could Delay Lung Cancer Therapy in Blacks
MONDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans are more likely than whites to have beliefs and perceptions about lung cancer that could interfere with prevention and treatment, new study findings suggest. In the study, researchers analyzed th...
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