Tobacco marketers targeting teens near schoolsJoe Camel may be long gone, but that doesnt mean tobacco marketers have abandoned their efforts to get young people hooked on smoking.
A new Canadian study reports that tobacco marketers have found a way around tobacco advertising restrictions, reaching teens by marketing in retail shops located near high schools. The findings, reported in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, suggest the strategy is working.
At the time of the study, we........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/27/2007 10:15:38 PM)
Tumor-suppressor gene for lung cancerThe GPRC5A gene, which is under-expressed in human lung cancer cells, suppresses lung tumors in mouse models and could provide a key to attacking lung cancer in humans, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Nov. 21 edition of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The study observed that mice with both of their GPRC5A genes suppressed developed normally until their second year of life, when........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/13/2007 9:37:34 PM)
New insights into lung cancerAn international consortium of researchers today in an advanced online publication in the journal Nature revealed a comprehensive view of the altered genetic background of the type of lung cancer that is the most common cause of cancer deaths in humans.
Of particular interest was a specific proto-oncogene called NKX2-1 that appears involved in as a number of as 12 percent of lung adenocarcinomas the most common cause of cancer deaths........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 11/4/2007 2:44:42 PM)
Early warning system for lung cancerAn immune system protein could act as an early warning system for lung cancer, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Thorax.
Lung cancer kills around 900,000 people every year, and can take 20 years or more to develop fully. But it is commonly only picked up at an advanced stage, when the chances of successful therapy are slim.
As yet, there is no effective early warning system to detect the disease in its early........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 10/10/2007 5:46:07 PM)
Genetics of smoking cessationA genetic variant present in nearly half of Americans of European ancestry is associated with greater effectiveness of the smoking cessation medicine bupropion (Zyban), as per research by researchers supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). People with this variant were less likely than those without it to have resumed smoking six months........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 9/10/2007 9:06:33 PM)
Radiation and drug combo for lung cancerCombining radiation treatment with a drug that helps destroy blood vessels nourishing cancerous tumors has been shown in mice to be significantly more effective in treating lung cancer than either approach alone, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
The study, involving human lung-cancer cells implanted in mice, appears in the Sept. 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research.
In the study, Dr. Philip Thorpe, professor of........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 9/3/2007 12:51:44 PM)
Smoking Eventually Leads to GraveyardThis is a typical anti-smoking print advertisement campaign signaling where smoking habit eventually leads. This advertisement was published in Kuwait in Public interest to make people feel the urgency to quit smoking. The apparent message of the advertisement is that all the cigarettes consumed by a person are in turn used in making a coffin for that very person in a graveyard. The advertisement is showing a coffin like structure made of........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 7/12/2007 5:09:22 AM)
Gene variations, inflammation and lung cancerVariations in two genes correlation to inflammation may be a major risk factor for developing lung cancer, as per a team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The effect of these genes is particularly strong among heavy smokers, suggesting that the inflammatory response is important in modulating the damage caused by tobacco smoke.
Their study, reported in the July 1........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 7/3/2007 5:04:13 AM)
Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recoveryAlcoholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism therapy are also chronic smokers. New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol.
Alcoholics frequently smoke.
A number of alcoholics in therapy continue to smoke.
New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 6/25/2007 9:26:53 PM)
US Supreme Court Rules Against Phillip MorrisThe US Supreme Court on Monday revitalized some tobacco lawsuits when it declined to permit Philip Morris, the big US cigarette maker, to fight cases involving deceptive marketing of ‘light’ cigarettes in federal court, rather than in more plaintiff-friendly state trials. The Supreme Court inverted an appeals court verdict that a federal court should hear the class-action suit, Watson v. Philip Morris. The lawsuit accuses that........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 6/15/2007 1:30:43 PM)
Advances In Lung Cancer TreatmentScientists at the Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals Case Medical Center have developed methods for treating lung cancer cells that have become resistant to new anti-cancer agents.
Led by Balazs Halmos, MD, hematologist/oncologist with the Ireland Cancer Center, the research team followed up on their prior study, reported in the New England Journal (NEJM), which observed that lung cancer cells can become resistant to novel........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 4/23/2007 9:38:26 PM)
Race affects tobacco absorption in childrenNew research suggests that a child's race may be a factor in determining his/her susceptibility to tobacco toxins linked to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). The study, reported in the recent issue of CHEST, the peer-evaluated journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), reveals that African American children with asthma, who are exposed to ETS, have significantly higher toxin levels when in comparison to their Caucasian........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/29/2007 5:09:09 AM)
Smoking Greatly Increases The Risk For Lung CancerLung cancer is the most deadly of all cancers. It is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women, as per the American Cancer society (ACS). More people die of this than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. The ACS predicts that in 2007 there will be about 213,380 new cases. Of this number, about 160,390 people will die.
Sadly, this can be prevented if people would stop smoking. Smoking is the root cause of eight out........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/24/2007 9:59:06 AM)
Cause of Smokers' CravingsVideo of Jed Rose explaining the regions of the brain that control craving is available in the following formats: RealMedia, QuickTime and Windows Media Video.
DURHAM, N.C. -- Within the mind of every smoker trying to quit rages a battle between the higher-order functions of the brain wanting to break the habit and the lower-order functions screaming for another cigarette, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. More often than........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 3/19/2007 9:40:32 PM)
Lung Cancer-derived EGFR MutantsA new study sheds light on how some small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including two that are currently being used clinically to treat cancer, interact with wild-type and mutated forms of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The research, reported in the recent issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, may help to guide rational use of currently available EGFR inhibitors and provides new direction for the design........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 3/13/2007 10:09:28 PM)
CT Scans Still Not Advised for Lung Cancer ScreeningUsing CT scan to screen for lung cancer provides no benefit to smokers:
The use of computed tomography (CT) scans to screen current or former smokers for lung cancer is still too experimental to recommend for widespread medical use, as per results from a new study.
The potential use of imaging tests like CT to screen for lung cancer has been the subject of lively debate in recent years. Some prior studies have suggested that such tests........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 3/13/2007 10:03:07 PM)
How Body Fights To Control Spread Of CancerScientists at the University of Liverpool have found how two molecules fight in the blood to control the spread of cancer cells.
Researchers discovered that a large protein, which forms a protective shield around cancer cells and prevents them from causing secondary tumours, is attacked by a small protein that exists in the blood.
In diseases such as breast, lung and colorectal cancer, infected cells lose growth control and eventually........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 1/8/2007 9:36:59 PM)
New Lung Cancer Therapy With Fewer Radiation TreatmentsYou probably have not to take that prolonged therapy with radiation treatment. Now there is a new cancer therapy that cuts down the amount of radiation a patient must endure. This new therapy method would cut 35 therapys of radiation to five therapys. This new technique is called sterotactic body radiotherapy.
Julie Lenander has lung cancer. She's getting stereotactic body radiotherapy at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview.........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 12/17/2006 9:16:15 PM)
Gender Disparity In Lung Cancer SurvivalIs there gender discrimination for lung cancer? Scientists have previously indicated that women do significantly better than men in surviving lung cancer. Now there is proof, a new study shows that women do better with several types of lung cancer.
The study, led by Dr. Robert J. Cerfolio, a thoracic surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, observed that women at every stage of non-small cell lung cancer had higher rates of........Go to the Lung-cancer-blog (Added on 12/17/2006 8:47:17 PM)
Exercise may reduce lung cancer riskGood news for women who do regular exercise! Even if you smoke your may reduce your chance of developing lung cancer by doing regular exercise. This new study shows that regular exercise may cut down the risk of lung cancer. But this comes with a warning. The researchers caution that any relative benefit is dwarfed by the benefits gained from kicking the habit.
In the study, women who reported high levels of physical activity were 23 per........Go to the Lung-cancer-info (Added on 12/17/2006 8:36:41 PM)
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Fall 2006 FashionFashion week is over in New York City and fall styles have been released. It always amazes me to be talking about fall styles when spring has not even sprung yet. Here it is! Colors are dark and neutral but accessories are sizzling and spruce up those colors of the evening. There is plenty to keep from this winter season and plenty to get rid of.
Let us start with colors. Think of nightfall when it comes to fall color as per Pantone. The........Go to the Fashion-blog (Added on 2/26/2006 4:47:03 PM)
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