http://medicineworld.org/news/lungNews.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily lung cancer news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld heart watch news service is the most comprehensive heart watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/lung-cancer.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/lungNews.html 108 87 http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2007/handling-pesticides-associated-with-asthma.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2007/handling-pesticides-associated-with-asthma.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT New research on farm women has shown that contact with some usually used pesticides in farm work may increase their risk of allergic asthma. Farm women are an understudied occupational group, said Jane Hoppin, Sc.D., of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and lead author of the study. More than half the women in our study applied pesticides, but there is very little known about the risks........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/quit-rates-double-with-counseling.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2007/quit-rates-double-with-counseling.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT Increasing the level of Quitline smoking cessation services and offering free nicotine patches are a successful and cost-effective way to reduce smoking rates, as per two new studies in the recent issue of Tobacco Control, a peer-evaluated publication of the British Medical Journal. Both studies were conducted by scientists at Kaiser Permanentes Center for Health Research in Portland, the Oregon Health Department, and Free and Clear in Seattle, a phone-based tobacco therapy program........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/cancer-patients-go-back-to-cigarettes.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2006/cancer-patients-go-back-to-cigarettes.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT New research has shown that the development of lung cancer and surgery to remove it is not yet enough to put a number of smokers off picking up cigarettes again. A Washington University School of Medicine study of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer found almost half picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their operations........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/smoking-related-cancers.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/smoking-related-cancers.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT There are currently about fifty million smokers in the U.S. and there are another fifty million ex-smokers. Cigarette smoking has been linked to several human malignancies. Some of these links like the relationship between smoking and lung cancer are well established. In some other cases the relationship between smoking and cancer is not very well established. However several studies have clearly shown the malignant potential of chemical substances in cigarette smoke. This article is an attempt to summarize some of the known links between cigarette smoking and caner........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/predicting-drug-sensitivity.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/predicting-drug-sensitivity.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT What if we can clearly predict which of those patients with non-small cell lung cancer would respond to a cisplatin-based chemotherapy. This would benefit a number of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, since oncologists could use another drug combination to treat these patients. This is what scientists from MD Anderson Cancer Center is trying to achieve........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/suggest-your-news-item-to-medicineworld.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/suggest-your-news-item-to-medicineworld.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/vaccine-against-nicotine-addiction.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/vaccine-against-nicotine-addiction.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2006/people-with-allergies-are-less-likely-to-develop-brain-tumors.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/4-2006/people-with-allergies-are-less-likely-to-develop-brain-tumors.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/sleep-apnea-treatment-and-the-heart.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/sleep-apnea-treatment-and-the-heart.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/why-older-people-quit-smoking.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/why-older-people-quit-smoking.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/new-way-to-quit-smoking.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/new-way-to-quit-smoking.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/reducing-fine-particulate-air-pollution-may-save-lives.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/reducing-fine-particulate-air-pollution-may-save-lives.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/radon-and-lung-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/radon-and-lung-cancer.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/a-tribute-to-dana-reeves.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/a-tribute-to-dana-reeves.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2006/obesity-and-asthma-medications.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/2-2006/obesity-and-asthma-medications.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:34:48 GMT