Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Weekly News for 4/16/09

The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.
“This is the second study to show that people with lung cancer who took the daily pill Tarceva following initial treatment lived longer without their cancer getting worse. We plan to discuss these data with the FDA to determine next steps,” said Hal Barron, M.D., Genentech's senior vice president, development and chief medical officer. “Tumors use different pathways to grow and these results showed that combining medicines targeting two of these pathways instead of one delayed disease progression.”
Did you know that there is a relationship between COPD and lung cancer? And that this relationship, according to a recent study in the European Respiratory Journal is independent of past smoking history?
Now recovering from surgery to remove cancer from his lung, Adams, 59, is crediting his eight-year-old feline friend Tiger for alerting him and his family doctor to a mass in his lung.
Cancer Research UK analysis suggests that by 2024, 40 per 100,000 people will get the cancer compared with the current rate of 50 per 100,000.
In more health stories this week, experts test whether mushrooms could stop cancer coming back and hopes that a new stem cell therapy could reverse a deadly lung disease.

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