A blood-based test developed by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center can efficiently predict an individual's risk of dying from lung cancer when combined with a personalized risk model.
Jun 28, 2023
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Lung cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, continues to be a leading cause of death worldwide. Although several new therapies have been developed for this disease, it has a poor prognosis in its advanced stages.
Jun 28, 2023
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Researchers and national cancer charities strongly welcome the UK Government's decision to back National Screening Committee recommendations for a new national screening program for lung cancer with smoking cessation support ...
Jun 27, 2023
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An accurate tool that is readily available could be used to predict whether frail patients are likely to survive intensive cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, according to researchers from the University of Surrey.
Jun 26, 2023
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The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine.
Jun 26, 2023
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One of the big reasons that cancer is difficult to treat is that patients respond to treatments differently, and these differences can rarely be anticipated. In most cases, determining whether and how a patient will respond ...
Black veterans have significantly lower odds of completing lung cancer screening (LCS) than White veterans even after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic risk factors, according to a study published online June 16 ...
Jun 18, 2023
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Research led by the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, New Hampshire, has looked into mortality estimates due to various causes when accounting for smoking status.
Researchers at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues who have been exploring the complexities of biochemical pathways involved in cancer development have found that a form of glucose, ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Identifying people at high risk of chronic disease means that they can be targeted with prevention measures before they become sick. Polygenic risk scores, where genomic information alone is used to assess the risk of developing ...
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