Lung Cancer News

My boyfriend just came back from a semester abroad in Paris -- and he came back a smoker.

D o you realise that smoking lowers your immunity to illness and is bad for your health? You perhaps started smoking because you thought it was fashionable and macho! Maybe you had planned to stop burning your money but found that when you were stressed, cigarettes helped.

The European Union's health chief proposed on Tuesday that uniform laws be drafted for all 27 countries in the bloc to regulate smoking more strictly in public areas and workplaces.

SAN FRANCISCO - It might take Californians a puff or two to get their heads around an apparent contradiction recently enshrined in state law.

Mr M. Lipton asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the House of Commons yesterday what action he would take to co-ordinate the work of Government departments in publicising the danger of lung cancer caused by smoking .

A targeted treatment for terminal lung cancer could help to improve the lives of thousands of patients who carry a specific gene mutation, experts say.

U.S. researchers say they've found a major cellular flaw that may drive the rapid spread of relapsed lung cancer.

You are a woman. You are a smoker. You are not alone. Approximately 18% of adult women smoke.

Paul Quarrington signs copies of his book "Galveston" prior to the Giller Prize dinner in Toronto on Nov.

Devices that simultaneously take a PET scan and a CT scan can eliminate unnecessary surgery for lung cancer, although they do little to save lives, researchers in Denmark reported on Wednesday.

A father who refused to accept his daughter was suffering from asthma saved her life by insisting she had an x-ray which revealed she had lung cancer.

Stop Smoking- the staunch slogan of the Croatian Government slammed against "Stop Smoking Ban" clamor of coffee shop owners after the Croatian government implemented its strict law against smoking on indoor public places on May 6, 2009.

New research suggests that casino workers face a higher risk of heart disease and lung cancer because they work in buildings filled with tobacco smoke.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca said Wednesday that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for its oral anti-cancer drug Iressa.

A study published in the July 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology revealed that internet-based lung cancer information was of a higher quality in the United States than in Japan.

Online genetic testing for lung cancer appears to offer some benefits to patients, according to U.S. researchers who evaluated the use of an online test among 44 smokers.

Smoking is a complex addiction with both psychological and physical components. Nicotine is the addictive substance found in tobacco products.

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics gets Japanese patent covering ICT-109 for treatment of small cell lung cancer M2Europharma on Monday, 29 June 2009 at 20:53 GMT 29 June 2009 - US-based clinical-stage biotechnology company ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Ltd announced today the issuance of a Japanese patent covering its monoclonal antibody therapeutics.

The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the U.S. that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according to a commentary published online June 29 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute .

Jun 29, 2009 - Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage pharmaceutical company commercializing potential best in class oncology and CNS therapeutics, today announced that it has signed an exclusive collaboration and option for license agreement with a top 20 global pharmaceutical company for the development of RX-3117. RX-3117 is a small ...