nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has launched a new online learning activity designed to support general practitioners in boosting their knowledge about the latest approaches to the early detection of common types of cancer including breast cancer, cervical cancer, [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptEugene A. Woltering, MD, FACS, The James D. Rives Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Sections of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has been awarded a US Patent for a one-step method to rapidly identify “sentinel nodes;” [...]

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptScreening for lung cancer with computed tomography (CT) may help reduce lung cancer deaths in current and former smokers, but it won’t protect them from other causes of death associated with smoking, according to a new study published in the July issue [...]

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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptControversy and lack of evidence for a mortality benefit have made physicians reluctant to embrace spiral computed tomography (CT) screening for lung cancer. 
A session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting was intended to debate the issue, but no one [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptA blood test for early detection of lung cancer demonstrated almost 90% accuracy in a preliminary clinical evaluation reported here
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nospam@example.com (Clear the Smoke) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptLung cancer is a disease that accounts for nearly a third of all cancer deaths. New technology is changing the way doctors see lung cancer- literally. A new medical device, available at Eisenhower Medical Center, could make it possible to detect lung [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt“Our study showed patients with a history of a previously diagnosed
independent primary lung cancer have more than 2.5 times the incidence of
developing second lung primary malignancies than the general population,” said
Dr. Sivakumaran.
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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptReport Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report showing that until superior therapeutic treatments are developed to prevent, treat and cure cancer, the best means of reducing mortality and morbidity in a disease this complex is [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThis spring, Eisenhower Medical Center became the only hospital in Southern California, and one of only three locations in California, to offer superDimension’s inReach system, providing the possibility to detect lung cancer early, even before symptoms are evident, and enhancing treatment options for patients.
A minimally [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptAccording to a new report baseline CT screening could prove beneficial and effective in the detection of lung cancer among people that have a history of being exposed to asbestos, which is a potentially deadly substance and a known carcinogenic. Researchers state that this method [...]

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