Archive for the ‘Lung Cancer’ Category
A Pill To Cure Lung Cancer
A drug maker, Pfizer, who is very well known to treat millions with their medicines is set to roll out a twice a day type pill to cure lung cancer which would be given to few chosen candidates round t…
Lung Cancer Pill Gets Fast Approval
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Association approved Pfizer's new drug for lung cancer cure. Xalkori, generically know as crizotinib will be used to treat patients with late stage non small cell l…
Lung Cancer Can Be Safely Treated By Thermal Ablation: Research
There is more hope for proper and specific treatment for pateints of lung cancer. The silent killer, which is the name often ascribed to lung cancer, has been avioded to be treated with thermal ablati…
Lung Cancer Cause And Cure
There are two causes for cancer they are either hereditary or environmental. Environmental may be not only due to environmental pollution but also reasons such as old age, Smoking dietary choices, obe…
New Less Invasive Way To Detect Lung Cancer
New technology has been announced which can provide a less invasive method for individuals to help detect lung cancer in the body. The new study which has been conducted by the Endosonography for Pulm…
Experimental drug showing promise
As the search for a cure for cancers continues, a new drug, crizotinib, is showing some success in treating a specific type of lung cancer. Crizotinib targets a protein present in a mutation and this …
Vitamin B6: Associated To Lower Lung Cancer Risk
According to a new study, people with high levels of vitamin B6 have lower lung cancer risk than those with low levels.
As reported in the June 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assoc…
New Viral Cancer Treatment May Help Treat Deadly Lung Cancer
A new viral treatment that destroys cancer cells but leaves normal cells unaffected may help patients suffering from a particularly deadly type of lung cancer. The viral treatment Reolysin will be use…