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Lung Cancer statistics are very useful tools that we can refer to in helping us analyze what is happening in the world around us, which concerns the study of this specific type of cancer and its overall effects.

Fear plays a major role in whether women decide to go for cancer screening or not, but healthcare providers underestimate how much women need to know and wrongly assume that they will ask for information if they want it.

Hope for a better prostate cancer test, potential new uses for a largely discredited lung cancer drug and a warning for breast cancer patients all emerged last week from a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando, Fla.

Early detection of oral cancer could save your life. The FDA-approved VELscope can detect oral cancer that the naked eye can't see.

Re "Senate Approves Tight Regulation Over Cigarettes" (front page, June 12) and "Tobacco Regulation, at Last" (editorial, June 12): How long has this been going on? At least 75 years by my calculation. Research done by my father, Irving S. Wright, M.D., and Dean Moffat, M.D., in 1934 clearly showed the deleterious effect of smoking on the circulation ("Effects of Tobacco on Peripheral Vascular System," Journal of the American Medical Association, 1934). The research done in the 1950s by Dr. Ernest Wynder linking smoking to lung cancer was crucial to the near-eternal battle to regulate tobacco. Now, with luck, this will be carried out, and lives will be saved. I'm stunned whenever I see a young person smoking, and I see that more and more. Don't they know that cigarettes kill and, at 40 or 45 cents apiece here, burn up pocket change fast? So I don't quite get Congress's feckless proposal to fob more tobacco regulation onto the Food and Drug Administration, which arguably cannot han

Tamoxifen is a widely used and highly successful drug in the treatment of breast cancer, though resistance to tamoxifen is still a concern in recurrent disease , since therapy resistant metastatic tumor cells are a major cause of death.

Biothera has initiated a Phase II clinical trial in stage IV KRAS-mutated colorectal cancer patients with its investigational drug Imprime PGG in combination with Erbitux , the company announced today.

The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center (SCCC) at Centennial Medical Center last week began treating patients with a new non-invasive weapon in the battle against cancer. The Sarah Cannon Cancer Center is the first and only cancer center in Middle Tennessee to offer image-guided robotic stereotactic radiosurgery.

'Taking out the trash' takes on a whole new meaning, as investigators at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have discovered that a waste disposal protein is the key to cancer tumor suppression in a process known as autophagy. CINJ is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Autophagy is a process in which cancer cells eat themselves.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers in China. Although the association between the epidemiological factors and sporadic colorectal cancer has been studied, the relation between smoking, alcohol drinking, family history of cancer, body mass index (BMI) and sporadic colorectal cancer still remains uncertain. So it is important to investigate the role of these factors in the development of sporadic colorectal cancer.