Debi wrote a good post today onHere’s a little excerptTreatment with a combination of thalidomide and chemotherapy did not improve survival among patients with small cell lung cancer, and resulted in a higher risk of blood clots than treatment with chemotherapy alone. The results of this study were published in the Journal of the [...]

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Debi wrote a good post today onHere’s a little excerptSt. Louis University researchers are comparing two standard treatments for lung cancer — one that uses surgery to remove the tumor and another that delivers high, focused doses of radiation with a robot.
The clinical trial will compare the three-year survival rate of patients who have [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptA new strategy for treating non-small cell lung cancer increases the effectiveness of standard chemotherapy in patients with advanced stage disease, according to results presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Orlando.
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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals have started a late-stage trial testing its drug hopeful Nexavar on lung tumours in a fresh attempt to get the treatment approved against the most common cancer form.
The study in the third and last phase of testing usually required for regulatory clearance will [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGemin X Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel, targeted cancer therapeutics, today presented positive results from a Phase 1b clinical trial of its lead product candidate obatoclax (GX15-070) for the treatment of first line patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMerck KGaA’s experimental cancer vaccine Stimuvax proved safe to use in a long-term Phase II study on lung cancer patients, the German drugmaker said on Saturday.
The trial showed that patients’ immune systems did not turn on normal cells, a major concern in new vaccines that are [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptData from the Phase III ZODIAC study in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients, with the investigational drug vandetanib, were presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Orlando. Results show that the study met its primary endpoint, demonstrating that the [...]

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Quit Smoking Help wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBROOMFIELD – Biodesix Inc. in Broomfield has launched a test to help oncologists guide treatment of patients with lung cancer.
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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt 
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Concurrent chemoradiation is associated with the longest survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to US and Chinese researchers.
However, senior investigator Dr. Feng-Ming Kong of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, told Reuters Health, “although high-doseradiation therapy and chemotherapy improve the treatment results, [...]

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Debi wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt U.S. radiologists say they have developed a new lung cancer treatment that avoids conventional radiation regimens or surgical procedures. that avoids conventional radiation regimens or surgical procedures. Temple University Professor Curtis Miyamoto, who led the research, said the technique — stereotactic body radiotherapy — improves the [...]

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