http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study finds that lung cancer patients treated in hospitals that care for a high percentage of uninsured and Medicaid-insured patients, so-called "high safety-net burden facilities," were significantly less likely to undergo surgery that was intended to cure the cancer compared to patients treated at low safety-net burden facilities. This difference persisted even after controlling for other factors that significantly decreased the likelihood of curative-intent surgery, such as race, insurance status, stage, and female gender as well as other hospital characteristics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-hospitals-resort-quality-lung-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:54:49 EST news234784472 For the first time ever, a team of Canadian surgeons, which includes two University of Alberta researchers, is collaborating on a study into a technique for the better identification of oral cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-oral-surgeons-blue-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 27 May 2011 11:34:40 EST news225714870