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The 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, melanoma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer.

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Eugene 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;” the lymph nodes most likely to contain early metastasis from a primary cancer. Preliminary research indicates that the procedure which consists of injection of a radiolabeled dye around a cancer can identify sentinel nodes that receive lymphatic drainage from the tumor within 10 minutes.

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Screening 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 of the journal Radiology.”Our study suggests that screening may be one way to reduce risk of death from lung cancer,” said the study’s lead author, Pamela McMahon, Ph.D., senior scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “However, the number-one goal should still be to quit smoking, because it will reduce risk of death from many causes, including lung cancer.”

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Controversy 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 was willing to argue for lung cancer screening, said session chair Jacek Jassem, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical University of Gdansk in Poland. 
 
Spiral CT screening picks up 70% more lung cancers than X-ray imaging, said James R. Jett, M.D., Ph.D., a speaker at the session. Its lung cancer detection rate has been far better than sputum cytology overall as well in small studies, he said.

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A blood test for early detection of lung cancer demonstrated almost 90% accuracy in a preliminary clinical evaluation reported here

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Lung 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 cancer early. Some doctors say it could revolutionize lung cancer diagnoses and treatment.
It’s called inReach and is developed by superDimension, a company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Eisenhower Medical Center, in Rancho Mirage, is the only hospital in Southern California to offer this system. There are only three locations that offer inReach in California.

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“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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Report 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 early detection and diagnosis.
“Biomarker Technology Platforms for Cancer Diagnoses and Therapies” reports that in the major solid cancer types such as lung, breast, colon and prostate, long-term survival rates drop precipitously once metastatis has occurred.
The report shows that the case is clear for development of biomarkers for early detection and screening tests for diseases such as breast, colon, ovarian and lung cancer. In addition, diagnostic measurement of cancer disease progression is essential to successful disease management. For these reasons, development of new and effective biomarkers for cancer detection and diagnosis is central to the cancer problem

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This 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 invasive procedure, the inReach system allows a pulmonologist (or lung specialist) to take tissue samples in regions of the lungs not accessible with conventional bronchoscopy – a medical procedure in which the physician views a patient’s airways through the nose or mouth with the aid of a bronchoscope (a long, thin lighted tube). Traditionally, physicians relied on a needle biopsy or surgery to take tissue samples from these regions. Now, using inReach’s electromagnetic navigation system, in conjunction with the bronchoscope, the physician can navigate more precisely through a patient’s airways to the lungs without the risks associated with surgery.

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According 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 of screening could benefit those at high risk of developing lung cancer or mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure.

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