Lung Cancer

October 21, 2015October 21, 2015

Researchers To Present Case Report Of E-cigarette Associated Acute Inhalation Lung Injury At 81st CHEST Annual Meeting

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The 81st annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), being held October 24-28 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Canada, begins this week, with a ... Read more

October 16, 2015October 16, 2015

Researchers Find that Lung Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases and Rare Genetic Mutations Have Extended Survival

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A study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology entitled “Extended Survival and Prognostic Factors for Patients With ALK-Rearranged Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Brain Metastasis,” finds that patients with lung cancer associated ... Read more

October 15, 2015October 15, 2015

New Scoring System for Lung Cancer Diagnostic Test Developed to Better Evaluate Malignancy Risks

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Researchers from the University of Missouri have developed a new scoring system for a lung cancer diagnostic test that will potentially aid clinicians in stratifying malignancy risk of patients during clinical evaluation ... Read more

October 14, 2015October 15, 2015

Researchers Study Tiotropium Preoperative Therapy in Gastric Cancer Patients with COPD

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Gastric cancer is the third most frequent cause of cancer-related death in the world, mostly affecting elderly people. Treating this disease is still difficult, since most patients are diagnosed with ... Read more

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015

LabCorp Diagnostic Test for PD-L1 is Approved by FDA for Nivolumab-Treated NSCLC Patients

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Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp), a leading healthcare diagnostics company, announced that the FDA has approved a new diagnostic test for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The test was used ... Read more

October 7, 2015October 7, 2015

IQWiG Dossier Assessment Shows No Added Benefit of Ceritinib (Zykadia) in NSCLC

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A new report from one of Germany’s public health agencies is shedding new light on an approved therapy often used in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. Ceritinib (Zykadia) was approved ... Read more

October 5, 2015October 5, 2015

Merck’s Keytruda Receives FDA Approval for Treatment of Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

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The US FDA recently granted accelerated approval to Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a treatment for advanced (metastatic) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients with disease progression after other therapies have already ... Read more

September 24, 2015September 24, 2015

New Study Tests Labeled Sputum in the Diagnosis of Early Stage Lung Cancer

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A research study entitled “Early Detection of Lung Cancer with Meso Tetra (4-carboxyphenyl) Porphyrin-Labeled Sputum,” published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology in September 2015, investigated the effectiveness of the Cypath® test in ... Read more

September 22, 2015September 22, 2015

EORTC Trial To Evaluate Efficacy Of Functional Imaging For Determining Treatment Options in NSCLC Patients

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Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of tumor-related deaths in the world, with over one million patients dying from the disease annually. Deciding on a line of ... Read more

September 17, 2015September 17, 2015

Preliminary Data From CAR-T Phase I Clinical Trial for NSCLC to be Presented by Cellular Biomedicine at 5th World Congress on Cancer Therapy

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Cellular Biomedicine, a biotechnology company developing cell-based therapies to address degenerative diseases and immunotherapies for cancer, recently announced they will present new clinical findings at the 5th World Congress on Cancer Therapy, taking place on September 28, ... Read more