A recent report from researchers at the University of California at San Diego has revealed that the habit of smoking at least one pack (20 cigarettes) a day has severely declined over the last fifty years. Investigators observed that the rate of decline was particularly noteworthy in California, where lung cancer rates also fell in [...]
A new study from researchers at the University of Geneva shows that the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen may also be useful in combating lung cancer. The study found that women who were undergoing treatment for breast cancer, with Tamoxifen as part of their chemotherapy routines, also showed a reduced death rate from lung cancer. The [...]
The simple act of taking aspirin once a day may dramatically reduce an individual’s likelihood of dying from cancer, according to a study conducted at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.The primary focus of the Oxford study was to look at how aspirin affects death rates associated with stroke and heart attack. However, the team [...]
The biotechnology company OncoPep is developing a vaccine against a deadly form of cancer before it becomes evident in patients at risk to contract the disease. The vaccine is designed to prevent the onset of multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that attacks the bone marrow and forms tumors inside the bone. The disease also [...]
The development of new chemotherapy drugs that target cancerous tumor cells – while leaving healthy cells alone – has been a breakthrough in the cancer treatment field. However, these treatments have been shown to work only on a select few patients. Even when they do work, the tumor can create a resistance to the drugs, [...]
Individualized vaccines created from a patient’s own cancer tumor may help boost the immune system’s response to the illness, according to a study conducted at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Early trials of the innovative new treatment option suggest that patient survival can be greatly improved through such vaccinations.For the study, researchers (led by Richard Barth Jr, [...]
Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have found a new method for the treatment for a common form of skin cancer. Researchers at the laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Valeri Vasioukhin, have detected that a protein, known as alpha-catenin, that functions acts as a suppressive agent for squamous cell carcinoma tumors. [...]
A new report by the group Cancer Research UK compares lung cancer rates in the British population from 1975 to 2008. The report showed that the number of women over sixty years of age diagnosed with lung cancer jumped from 5,700 in 1975 to 15,100 in 2008, an increase of nearly 165 percent in just [...]
Teams of researchers at opposite ends of the country have recently developed an improved system to deliver chemotherapy drugs to attack malignant cells. Scientists at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Sand Diego have devised a method involving microscopic machines known as nanoparticles. Although cancer researchers have used nanoparticles [...]
State health officials in Massachusetts are developing measures to help the state’s military veterans quit smoking. The new campaign is the second effort launched since 2008 to help veterans with this growing health problem. Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray released a statement praising “the brave men and women” in uniform and said that the campaign [...]
For victims suffering from asbestos-related diseases resulting from exposure by W.R. Grace, there may be an end in sight. The company has agreed to pay billions of dollars as a settlement in order to emerge from bankruptcy. People that have been suing W.R. Grace for compensation over their exposure to asbestos may have some relief [...]
An historic school in Idaho will now need extensive cleaning after asbestos was found in and around some of the buildings. The old school, built in the 1800s was being renovated as a convention space. A school in Idaho that is on the National Register for Historic Places has been temporarily shut down during renovations [...]