Lung cancer survival
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Veteran BBC correspondent Wheeler dies at 85 - Kansas City Star
Sir Charles Wheeler, who reported from Washington, Berlin and other capitals during a long and distinguished broadcasting career, died Friday. He was 85. Wheeler died at his London home of lung cancer, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. Wheeler
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Circulating tumor cells can reveal genetic signature of dangerous lung - WebWire
MGH-developed device promises improvements in targeted therapy, treatment monitoring BOSTON - July 2008 - Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have shown that an MGH-developed, microchip-based device that detects and analyzes tumor
Source: www.webwire.com
Circulating Tumor Cells Reveal Insights Into Lung Cancers - BusinessWeek
WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) — A new technique for finding and analyzing stray cancer cells in the blood of lung cancer patients may make it possible for doctors to one day not only determine the genetic “signature” of particular tumors but to
Source: www.businessweek.com
Sir Charles Wheeler, veteran BBC correspondent, dies at 85 - International Herald Tribune
LONDON : Sir Charles Wheeler, who reported from Washington, Berlin and other capitals during a long and distinguished broadcasting career, died Friday, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. Wheeler, 85, died at his London home of lung cancer, the BBC
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Shining a light on genetic testing - AZCentral.com
Arizonans can buy tests that predict whether they are likely to get cancer, develop thinking problems or even go bald. Such tests can be purchased over the Web in the largely unregulated market of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. A handful of
Source: www.azcentral.com
Doctors extract cancer cells from blood sample - Reuters
BOSTON (Reuters) - An experimental process that snags lung cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported on Wednesday. Dr. Daniel Haber of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Source: www.reuters.com
Cancer survival up since NHS launch - Guardian Unlimited
The number of people surviving some of the most common types of cancer has doubled since the NHS was launched 60 years ago, figures suggest. Patients with breast, colon and bowel cancer have a far greater chance of surviving than when the NHS was
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk - BusinessWeek
WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) — Smokeless tobacco products (STPs), which include products such as snuff and chew tobacco, do increase the user’s risk of cancer — just not as much as smoking does. So say researchers who examined worldwide
Source: www.businessweek.com
