Exposure to asbestos can lead to lung disease - pleura cancer

 

Exposure to asbestos can lead to lung disease
Manila Bulletin - Manila,Philippines
... diseases are: calcified pleural plaques (thickening of the parietal pleura on the ... or ‘scarring' of the lungs); asbestos-related lung cancer (cancer of the ... 

 

Investigating Breast Cancer
50 Connect - UK
... study has given the main evidence for most of the causes of cancer we know, such as smoking and lung cancer, and asbestos and cancer of the pleura (lining of ...

Cancer risk among nuclear industry workers
MedIndia - India
... of 100 Sv will cause 9.7% mortality from cancer (excluding leukaemia), and a 5.9% increased mortality from cancers excluding leukaemia, lung, and pleura. ...

Detecting Early Lung Cancer
Medical News Today - UK
Researchers have shown that low-dose spiral computer-based tomographic (CT) screening for the early detection of lung cancer can lead to an early diagnosis in ...

You can call 'em lung-cancer bloodhounds
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
And the contents of that tube could foretell early signs of any number of cancers, including the first signs of lung cancer. According ...

Outcry over 22% drop in Scotland's cancer beds
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
... referred. For lung cancer the rate was 68.5 per cent, while figures for breast and ovarian cancer were 84.8 and 85.7 respectively. ...

Learning to live with lung cancer
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
By Sameh Fahmy. When Connie DeWitt was first told that she had lung cancer, two words popped into her head: death sentence. ... Lung cancer is the No. ...

YM BioSciences expands development program for EGFR inhibitor ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
to Develop Nimotuzumab (TheraCIM-hR3) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 15 /CNW/ - YM BioSciences Inc. (AMEX ... 

Lung cancer drugs will cost more
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
Some lung cancer patients will have to rely on their doctors to avoid paying hundreds of dollars more for their medicine under a government cost-cutting scheme ...

CT-PET Combined Scans Detect Lung Cancer Early with High Accuracy
Cancer Consultants (press release) - Memphis,TN,USA
... Care Medicine, annual screening with both computed tomography (CT) and positron-emission tomography (PET) scans appear to detect early lung cancer with high ...

Velcade® Moderately Active in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Cancer Consultants (press release) - Memphis,TN,USA
... bortezomib) has significant activity as a single agent or in combination with Taxotere® (docetaxel) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who ...

Late diagnoses prompt lung cancer warning
ABC Online - Australia
A new study suggests more than 80 per cent of people diagnosed with lung cancer are already at an advanced stage. The New South ...

Group seeks to reduce cancer diagnoses in state
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Tennessee has the fourth-highest rate of lung cancer in the nation, but a statewide coalition is seeking to strip the state of this dubious distinction. ...

Common lung cancer may begin in newly discovered stem cells
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
By Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The most common form of lung cancer may begin in a group of newly isolated lung stem cells, according to researchers from ...