Four truckers whose rigs were blown off Interstate 29 were the only ones hospitalized -- one with a punctured lung -- due to this particular tornado, the National Weather Service said.
One is a new ultra-targeted drug for lung cancer that was one of the most intriguing drugs at the American Society for Clinical Oncology conference last June.
It seemed to show that a lower dose of the drug could work just as well as a higher one in lung cancer, says Roman Perez-Solar of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
Mary Stutts , a senior director in corporate communications at Genentech, tells the story of one woman, an African-American single mother, who was one of the best responders to Tarceva, the lung cancer treatment Genentech developed with Melville, N.
The virus that infected him bears a 99.5% similarity to one isolated from the lung tissue of a 60-year-old man from Saudi Arabia who died this summer after suffering respiratory and kidney failure, the WHO said.
Moreover, the company argues that given Iressa's mild side effects, why not give it to all lung cancer patients in search of the one-tenth who will do well on it?
And the man who has to confront these challenges is a 76-year-old who has lived for decades with just one lung, having suffered a respiratory disease in his youth.
Louis, found that a 25% stronger dose of radiation used to treat patients with one type of lung cancer were more dangerous for the patients -- and less effective in treating the disease.
Adding to the risk, Alimta, a new chemotherapy from Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), was recently approved for one form of lung cancer and is expected to be approved for the same form that Tarceva would be used to treat.
One of the best examples is Lung King Heen, the Michelin-starred restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, where chef Chan Yan Tak has added duck liver and black truffles to pork dumplings, and invented new dim sums, like abalone baked in a cup of flaky puff pastry.
And the 76-year-old Francis will have to do it all with just one whole lung.
In one early trial on 64 cancer patients, 16 had advanced lung cancer--and tumors shriveled dramatically in 4 of them.
One is crizotinib, for 5% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
But to say the relationship between real-world violence and video games is as solid as the one between lung cancer and smoking is drastically misleading.
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For one thing, the drug seemed to decrease patient's lung function--apparently the result of the way the insulin, a big, complicated protein, was delivered into the lungs.
Several years ago, during a simple diagnostic chest X-ray, Centor discovered a growth on the lung of one of his patients, who appeared to be in good health.
Meanwhile, health minister Andy Burnham has announced the start of a one-year pilot programme using the appeal of football to raise awareness of lung, bowel and prostate cancers in men aged 55 and over.
One type of chemotherapy works about 6% of the time in late-stage lung cancer.
One vaccine, from GlaxoSmithKline, uses a protein called MAGE-A3 found on lung cancer cells.
The mother of one eight-month-old baby told the BBC that her child had suffered from lung problems for months and that they recently worsened after an outing.
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"It's a war that I feel we just won, " said one former New York firefighter -- who says he was forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered from dust at ground zero -- the site where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.
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Two studies found that beta-carotene supplements increased the risk of lung cancer in people who smoked more than one pack a day and drank heavily.
If each one was an individual claimant that would make asbestos-related disease a scourge more than five times worse than lung cancer, according to the most recent CDC statistics.
Time said on Tuesday it had spoken to Abu Sakkar, who confirmed that he had bitten into one of the soldier's organs - though a surgeon told the magazine that the organ appeared to be a lung, not the heart or liver, as reported elsewhere.
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