"It will be a significant progress for lung cancer, " says Herbst, also an Iressa trial investigator.
The same drug improves survival by one month when used as maintenance therapy for lung cancer.
But the radiologists were asked to search for lung cancer nodules alone and nothing else.
Then he asks, who will pay a dollar to find a cure for lung cancer?
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' Even if your risk is low for lung cancer, it may be high for heart disease.
He has supported Tenovus since the charity helped his father when he was treated for lung cancer.
In stark contrast, the five year survival rate for lung cancer is 8.8% for women and 7.4% for men.
Liverpool Primary Care Trust has the highest mortality rate for lung cancer in the country, a new report claims.
It indicates little improvement in 40 years for lung, brain and pancreatic cancer.
Part of the explanation, historically, has been prejudice - according to researchers struggling to win research backing for lung-cancer projects.
AstraZeneca's Iressa--which is approved for lung cancer and being tested in colon tumors--is a pill, while Erbitux must be injected.
Next step: another final-stage trial with 600 more patients injected with antisense and Gemzar, Lilly's chemo drug for lung cancer.
For lung cancer, 8.8% of patients survived five years in the UK and 18.4% in the best performing country, Canada.
It is a powerful risk factor for these cancers -- almost as powerful as cigarette smoking is for lung cancer.
Two other designer drugs, AstraZeneca's Iressa (for lung cancer) and ImClone Systems' Erbitux (for colon cancer), are showing far more modest results.
AstraZeneca has also offered Iressa for free to more than 5, 000 patients through their oncologists in a compassionate-use program for lung cancer.
Last year, research indicated daily low-dose aspirin cut the risk of dying by 66% for oesophageal cancer and 25% for lung cancer.
The median age of diagnosis for lung cancer is 72, but with 42, 000 diagnosed every year there are many thousands of sufferers who are much younger.
If Iressa wins approval by midyear, it will become the first targeted treatment for lung cancer, the leading cancer killer in the U.S., afflicting 169, 500 people.
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.
The potential medicines, which are either in clinical trials or under review by the FDA, include 121 for lung cancer, 117 for lymphoma and 111 for breast cancer.
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Prior work has shown that the precise type of bacteria responsible for lung infections or even the presence of stomach cancer could be discerned in the breath.
First, thanks to the pooches, we now know for sure that there is an independent, stable marker for lung cancer, which in and of itself is a big step forward.
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The review teams for lung cancer found that of the 31 hospitals they visited, only three met the target of making a decision about initial treatment within four weeks of diagnosis.
In addition to a research collaboration with UNC (to discover how specific particle properties determine distribution through the body), the company is also developing nano-enabled treatments for lung, breast and prostate cancers.
Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, cut its backlog of routine CT scans from 18 weeks to zero for lung cancer patients, by ensuring the scanner was used to full capacity.
They were confident they could later win a far broader claim for initial treatment for lung cancer cases--critical for the drug's commercial prospects--once the results came in from Iressa's two large, 1, 000-patient trials.
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did not reveal, at the time, that some funding came from a group called the Foundation for Lung Cancer, Early Detection, Prevention and Treatment.
Thus, these breast cancer risk factors are nothing like cigarette smoking as a risk factor for lung cancer, where a current smoker has roughly a 15-fold increased risk compared to that of someone who never smoked, and a heavy smoker might have a 40 or 50-fold increased risk.
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