Articles tagged with: lung
Vanderbilt Lung Cancer Trial for Never Smokers Goes Online
One of the mysteries of lung cancer is why many people who have never smoked to develop the disease. More than 219,000 patients are diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each year, according to the National Cancer Institute. About 20,000 – one in 10 – never smoked snuff. Most patients are women. One […]
Adding cetuximab to chemotherapy reduces advanced lung cancer death risk by 13 percent
Patients with non-small cell lung cancer who are treated with cetuximab (Erbitux) plus chemotherapy are 13% less likely to die than those receiving chemotherapy alone, regardless of their cocktail of chemotherapy drugs used A recent research. They also experience disease progression slower and a greater likelihood of tumor shrinkage. While a study last year found […]
Distinct set of white blood cells found to set the pace of wound repair
After more than 50 experiments on mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins doctors have traced the basic measures taken by a particular set of white blood cells in determining the pace of recovery from severe lung injury. White blood cells called regulatory T cells or regulatory T cells for short, and his best-known function is to […]
