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Radon gas detection tests recommended by Canadian Cancer Society
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 24, 2014 Source: Radon gas levels in homes need to be checked, lung cancer experts say
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Overdiagnosis of lung cancer through CT screening does lead to harm for those whose cancers do not require treatment
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 10, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: Many lung cancer tumours prove harmless, study says Reference: Overdiagnosis in Screening for Lung Cancer Harms of Screening
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New app helps determine risk of lung nodule malignancy potential
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 5, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: Lung cancer: Canadians develop app to predict if lesions are malignant Reference: Probability of Cancer in Pulmonary Nodules Detected on First Screening CT
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Lung cancer breath test is not designed for screening healthy people
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 16, 2011 [display_podcast] Source: Breath Test for Lung Cancer Shows Promise in New Study Reference: Exhaled Breath Analysis with a Colorimetric Sensor Array for the Identification and Characterization of Lung Cancer
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Targeted lung cancer therapy demonstrates how personalized medical therapy works
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 31, 2011 [display_podcast] Source: New Lung Cancer Pill Highlights Improved Way of Treating Patients Reference: Butrynski JE, et al “Crizotinib in ALK-rearranged inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor” N Engl J Med2010; 363: 1727-1733.
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Lung cancer incidence for women increasing while for men it is decreasing
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 8, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: Lung Cancer in Women on the Rise
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New treatment classifications for lung cancer
An important factor that helps oncologists and surgeons decide whether aggressive chemotherapy and or surgery will be effective in treating cancerous tumours is a system of tumour classification. A recent overhaul to this system has opened new opportunities for thousands of patients with lung cancer previously classified as inoperable or beyond treatment. Dr. Peter Goldstraw,…
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A genetic test that predicts early stages of lung cancer
Cancer treatment success depends on early diagnosis. Lung cancer, unfortunately for many, is discovered too late. Various imaging technologies have been used to try to detect early lung cancer with some success and new detection methods are under development. In a recent study, US scientists have developed a genetic test, the results of which are…
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Early evidence for lung cancer screening
Up to now lung cancer screening has not been effective. Repeated studies have shown that annual chest X-rays were not sensitive enough to pick up early-stage ling cancer. A study published in the October 26, 2006 edition of the NEJM reported that lung cancer can be detected at its very earliest stage in 85 percent…