Lung Cancer News

Samantha Mixon looks and feels great, but she is fighting stage four lung cancer and all the assumptions that people make about her disease.

THE sale of tobacco products will be banned in health-care facilities and pharmacies, including drugstores and large retail outlets such as Safeway and Superstore, as of May 31 on World No Tobacco Day.

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INSPIRATIONAL teenager Donal Walsh has been nominated for a Rehab People of the Year Award - two weeks after his death.

The Nanostructured Lipid Carrier that can be inhaled to deliver an anticancer drug directly to the lungs According to American Cancer Society estimates, lung cancer will account for 27 percent of all US cancer deaths in 2013, making it by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women.

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One of the great killers of our time could become more treatable, even curable, as a result of an innovative screening program that will begin in early June at Tuality Healthcare.

Screening for lung cancer using low-dose computed tomography rather than chest X-rays may be a more effective way of detecting the disease, Medscape Today reported.

Electronic-cigarettes or E-Cigarettes, are battery-powered devices that heat liquid nicotine in a disposable cartridge and produce a vapor that's inhaled.

Middle-aged men who stayed fit were less likely to die from three common cancers after being diagnosed than those who were out of shape, research found.

A CT scan that screens for early signs of lung cancer is now available for heavy smokers at the bargain rate of $99. Saint Mary's Health Care this week introduced the program offering the low-dose lung CT in hopes of finding lung cancers at a stage early enough to cure.

The surgical management of non-small cell lung cancer in U.S. hospitals varies widely depending on the race of the patient, according to a new study.

Boca Region Hospital continues to make news for its staff, facilities and equipment.

Use of low-dose computed tomography to screen for lung cancer produces three times the rate of positive screens that chest x-ray does, while finding more early-stage tumors, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.

WEDNESDAY, May 22 -- Physicians weighing the benefits and risks of CT scans for detecting lung cancer now have more information to help with the decision.

Lakefield student's success continues as he snags the top prize for his work to target cancer cells with nano-silver particles science fair Adam Noble-1.jpg. Grade 12 Lakefield District Secondary School student Adam Noble checks out cancer cells through a microscope.

Recently, Angelina Jolie revealed that she "decided to be proactive" and underwent a preventive double mastectomy upon discovering she had the gene that would most likely cause her to develop breast cancer.

Researchers found 26 genes that were expressed only in patients with aggressive forms of lung cancer, a potential means for earlier detection of the illness.

JinHi Soucy Rand, the proprietress of Muse Arts Warehouse, guest-directed Bay Street Theatre's joyful production of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent last spring.

In a bit of good news today, the American Cancer Society reports that as of Wednesday, its 100th birthday, two out of three people who are diagnosed with cancer today will survive for at least five years, and cancer rates in the U.S. are down 20 percent overall since the 1990s.