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A simple questionnaire can identify patients at high risk for lung cancer, researchers say.
In a study that began in 2001 with 1,000 people in Colorado who were seeing their primary care physician for general health issues, patients were asked to complete a five-minute questionnaire that collected information about lung cancer risk factors, including smoking, family history, exposure to chemicals and work environments.

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Lung cancer ranks as one of the deadliest types of cancer, with a five-year survival rate of only 16%. But for those who catch it early, there’s a new, less invasive way to help boost those odds.
For Jennifer Hoppick, smoking was just something that ran in the family.
“Everyone in my family always smoked, all their lives, and no one ever got lung cancer,” says Jennifer.
The 61-year smoker thought she was in the clear until doctors heard something abnormal in her chest. She was diagnosed with early stage lung cancer.

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Women who take controversial hormone replacement therapy drugs to combat symptoms of the menopause could be more likely to die if they develop lung cancer.
An eight-year study of 16,600 women found the disease was 71 per cent more likely to be fatal in women taking HRT compared with those taking a placebo pill.

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A committee of scientists led by Johns Hopkins investigators has published a new guide to the biology, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in never-smokers, fortifying measures for what physicians have long known is a very different disease than in smokers.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that the genetic, cellular, and molecular nature of lung cancer in many never-smokers is different from that of smoking-related lung cancers, and there is good evidence now that the best treatment and prevention strategies for never-smokers may be different as well,” says Charles M. Rudin, M.D., Ph.D., associate director for Clinical Research at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Lung cancer in never-smokers is the sixth leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S.

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Phase II clinical trial to screen military veterans for early-stage lung cancer has been enhanced to include a longitudinal component, which will provide additional data on the efficacy of the Biomoda diagnostic.
“Study participants whose initial results indicated areas of concern — the presence of nodules on the lungs or a positive read for cancer cells — have been asked to return for follow-up screening…”

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McCulloch first became aware of the concept that certain diseases can be detected in a person’s breath from an ancient medical text in the early 1980s while studying acupuncture in Taiwan and mainland China. In 2003, he and his colleagues at the Pine Street Foundation began collecting breath samples from nearly a hundred lung and breast cancer patients.

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Fingerprinting of another sort was discussed at the conference. Unique fingerprints are left behind by our normal and cancer cells. These fingerprints help us to prognosticate how badly will the patient fare and predict which cancer drug will be effective in any particular patient. The other metaphor used during the four day conference was molecular signature, again capturing the essence that cancer patients are unique at the level which matters most.

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Using an array of sensors made from gold nanoparticles, Dr. Haick and his team have also developed an “electronic nose” able to distinguish the breath of lung cancer patients from those without the disease. The research results, which will be published in the Nanotechnology section of Nature Magazine very soon, the researchers tell DOTmed, could lead to a rapid and non-invasive way of diagnosing and screening for lung cancer.

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British scientists have developed the first blood test for lung cancer which could save thousands of lives. 

The revolutionary test picks up proteins in blood that are only produced as a reaction to the presence of lung cancer cells

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Government and private sector cancer scientists today launched a research partnership to find biomarkers for lung cancer that develops in people who have never smoked.
The research studies are designed to create a better understanding of the biology of lung cancer and to develop a test to detect early-stage lung cancer in lifetime nonsmokers.

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