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Archive for June, 2008

nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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Smokers and passive smokers have an equal chance of contracting fatal diseases caused by smoking, claimed Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) President Dr Masood Sheikh.
He told Daily Times on Sunday that, “There is no difference between smoking and passive smoking. A smoker is at risk. However, a non-smoker who inhales the smoke exhaled by a smoker is at equal risk. This poses a serious issue.”

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Debi wrote an interesting post today on
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Joseph B. Bolen, Ph.D., CSO of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, will chair the Focus on Cancer track IBC
Life Sciences Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics Conference and Exhibition taking place August 4-7 at the World Trade Center Boston & Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA. The cancer track presentations will focus on therapies for Hematology, Lung Cancer, Blood Borne Cancers, and Clinical Biomarkers.

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Debi wrote an interesting post today on
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Richmond Police Department recently lost one of its most important furry employees.
Rico, a six-year-old drug-sniffing K-9 dog, was euthanized June 17 after an inexplicable lung cancer diagnosis.
RPD officer Jamie Mastriano said he spent four years with the Belgian malinois dog as his partner.

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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But the drug would not stay in the body for very long and required continual infusions.  It also affected the patients’ brain causing dizziness, depression, and other side-effects.  Takeda Chemical Industries dropped it.
Efforts to improve the drug were unsuccessful until Benny tried using nanotechnology and attached two polymers to TNP-470 to protect it from stomach acid.
The altered drug, now called lodamin, went straight to tumor cells and suppressed lung cancer and melanoma in mice, without side effects, Benny said.

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Debi wrote an interesting post today on
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A HAIR-RAISING and fundraising night was had by all when friends of lung cancer sufferer Ammi Scott got together at Hacq Hair Artistry at Burleigh Heads.

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Dr. Richard Browne wrote an interesting post today on
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If you’re looking for a challenge to prove to yourself that you’re tough and full of determination, just try to give up smoking. They say, averagely people trying to stop smoking five times before they actually stop. With those odds, the chances of quitting smoking are near impossible.
There are ways to quit smoking, you just have to find the best way to stop smoking for you. That’s the key. There are many products and techniques to quit smoking, you just have to find the one that clicks with you, your personality and your body.
Get on the road and you’ll sooner find the best way to quit smoking and you’ll be grateful to yourself for stopping that disgusting habit.
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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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Third annual golf tournament benefits the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation. Tournament includes trophies, contests and prizes. $150 (reception and dinner), $450 (golf and dinner), $1,600 (foursome), sponsorships $2,006-$25,000. Sept. 22. Lake Merced Golf & Country Club, Daly City. (415) 357-1278

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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 The 15 percent of all lung cancers found in non-smokers may be due to a lack in cell-repair capability, U.S. researchers say. 
Those lacking this capability and exposed to secondhand smoke may have a four-fold increased risk of lung cancer.

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today on
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June 25, 2008 marks a revolutionary day in history for anybody who cares about Lung Cancer, the Number One Cancer Killer in this country. It’s almost tantamount to July 4th, Independence Day, for Lung Cancer. For the first time, in the last four decades, Lung Cancer finally has a voice, thanks to Senators Chuck Hagel and Dianne Feinstein.

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admin wrote an interesting post today on
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How did Marlboro cigarettes, the best-selling brand in the world, ever get so popular in the first place? Was it really the Marlboro Man? Did people just like the taste? What? According to a new study in this month’s American Journal of Public Health the secret may well have been “freebase nicotine.” Really.
For a long time, many cigarette companies used ammonia during the manufacturing process to inflate the volume of tobacco, accentuate certain flavors, or even get rid of a few carcinogens. But in the early 1960s, according to Terrell Stevenson and Robert Proctor, Philip Morris started using ammonia to freebase the nicotine in cigarette smoke, creating a form of “crack nicotine” that delivered a speedier, sharper kick, and essentially allowed Philip Morris to keep rolling out addictive cigarettes while lowering tar and nicotine levels to allay public fears.
As it happens, Philip Morris first perfected its ammonia trick with Marlboros, [...]

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