lung cancers

March 22 (Reuters) - Drugmaker AbbVie Inc said on Thursday it will not seek accelerated approval for its experimental lung cancer treatment based on results from a mid-stage study. The study was testing the company's Rova-T as a treatment for patients with small cell lung cancer who did not respond to at ...

Nabilone safely and effectively improves the symptoms of anorexia among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared with placebo, according to a study published in Supportive Care in Cancer. Up to 80% of patients with advanced NSCLC experience anorexia with disease ...

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wo years ago, AbbVie (ABBV 1) paid a hefty $5.8 billion to buy a small company with an experimental treatment for small lung cancer, which accounts for up to 15 percent of all lung cancers. The move was a big bet to expand into oncology and lessen dependence on its Humira rheumatoid arthritis ...

The efficacy of cancer treatment can vary greatly based on disease stage, previous therapies, and genetics. These variations can be the difference between achieving remission and disease progression, making cancer treatment decisions crucial to optimal outcomes. Currently, cancer treatment is largely ...

Roche has nabbed the first shot at a frontline indication for a significant share of the all-important lung cancer market with today's news that their checkpoint Tecentriq hit the primary endpoint on progression-free survival for squamous non-small cell lung cancer. Some analysts say that indication could be ...

Such is certainly the case with lung cancer. Advanced technologies that leverage computer learning and new insights into how cancer works are leading to exciting developments that may one day make determining a precise diagnosis, prognosis and the best treatment for the individual as simple as ...

Last week MesotheliomaHelp reported on a research team that is using epigenetics as a new approach to finding a way to stop metastasis. Researchers know that halting metastasis is critical for increasing survival in mesothelioma patients, but the cancer cells continue to evade even the most promising ...

Judy Bryden, who received the devastating diagnosis in 2016, travelled to Cuba last year to receive treatment and pick up several doses of the CIMAvax EGF vaccine. The vaccine was developed for non-small cell lung cancer, which represents up to 85 per cent of all lung cancers. After taking the vaccine ...

Immunotherapy has taken over the conversation for oncologists when discussing treatments for patients with lung cancer, explains Heather Greene, NP. The class of agents has been generally well tolerated in this patient population; however, there are adverse events (AEs) associated with this treatment ...

Dr. Lopes Discusses the Importance of Addressing Financial Toxicity in Lung Cancer. Gilberto Lopes Jr, MD ... The treatment of patients with lung cancer has improved markedly, but not all patients have access to new treatment modalities that could help prolong their life. There are many patients who do ...

... and lung cancer, specifically on disparities and solutions. What are some of the disparities we have observed in recent years? Has anything really changed? Lopes: With the advent of molecularly targeted agents and immunotherapy, which have improved survival and quality of life for certain lung cancers ...

Harold Marshall, center, is shown with Michele Williams and Dr. Greg Oliver in Oliver's office at University of Maryland Community Medical Group — Pulmonary Care. Marshall is glad he underwent the LDCT lung cancer screening and happy to recommend it to other former smokers and current smokers.

When RoseAnn Coghlan, of the Jupiter area, received news that she had stage 3A lung cancer at the local walk-in clinic, it was just like any other day. A few weeks prior, she had caught an upper respiratory infection and was on antibiotics. Being flu season and in the car business where stress levels run ...

“The goal of this project is to identify new potential drug targets in lung cancer and to better understand the etiology of lung cancer in patients without a ... According to Berger, previous genetic studies of lung cancer have focused mainly on tumors from people with a history of smoking; the largest study of ...

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and American scientists have found a new way to identify non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC), the most common type of lung cancer, non-invasively. In a study reported on Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the scientists used a ...

Experts are looking to push immunotherapy even further in the treatment landscape of lung cancer over the next few years by exploring checkpoint inhibitors in early-stage and locally advanced disease, testing immune-based therapies in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and mesothelioma, and tweaking ...

The researchers developed a PET scan-compatible imaging agent engineered to seek out a specific mutation found in nonsmall cell lung cancer (which accounts for about 80 percent of lung cancers), bind to it and emit a radioactive signal that flags its presence. In addition to exposing the molecular roots of ...

WILLISTON — Every two and a half minutes someone in the United States will be diagnosed with lung cancer. The American Lung Association's inaugural LUNG FORCE “State of Lung Cancer” report is the first time that these national and state lung cancer statistics have been analyzed in one report to show how the toll of ...

Hundreds of lung cancer patients may be dying prematurely every year as a result of disparities in rates of treatment across England, new research suggests. The team behind the study say more than 800 patients a year could have their lives extended if the rates of treatment in the top 20% of areas were ...

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Personalized medicine company 3D Signatures announced today that it has partnered with the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute (IUCPQ) to evaluate the clinical use of the company's TeloView software with DNA sequence analysis in lung cancer patients. TeloView is designed ...

Disease and patient factors don't seem to be driving these variations, say the researchers, who calculate that if treatment rates rose to optimal levels, 800 patients could "have a clinically relevant extension of their lives each year." Lung cancer survival in England is worse than in other comparable countries, ...

Physical inactivity appeared linked with an increased risk for lung cancer, according to findings published in Cancer Treatment and Research Communications. “[Although] a recently published meta-analysis of epidemiological evidence reported an inverse association between the highest level of ...

Kathleen Skambis is a problem solver. She is a commercial trial and appellate lawyer here in Orlando. “I'm overly, passionately interested about making a difference in the world,” Skambis said. However, about 19 years ago, Skambis faced one of life's greatest challenges — lung cancer. “I had the flu.

California needs to up its game in the fight against lung cancer, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The report provides a state-by-state look at the toll lung cancer takes in the United States. It shows California has the nation's fourth-lowest rate of new lung cancer cases. Much of ...

Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD: We have several second-line options approved in lung cancer patients. We have 3 immunotherapy agents: nivolumab, pembrolizumab, and atezolizumab. Because of the active Crohn's disease in this patient, I would be very reluctant to give her immunotherapy because of an ...

Connecticut also had the third highest rate of early diagnosis of lung cancer, with an average of 21.8 percent of lung cancers in the state diagnosis at an early stage, when they are most likely to be curable. That's higher than the nationwide average of 18.9 percent. The state also ranked third highest in the ...

"Lung cancer accounts for more than one-in-four cancer deaths in Aboriginal Victorians, compared to almost one-in-five in other Victorians," council chief executive officer Todd Harper said. Eighty per cent of lung cancers in Australia can be attributed to smoking and about one-in-eight cancer deaths is a ...

Four years ago, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. After undergoing intensive chemotherapy, she is now being treated with the world's first lung cancer vaccine. CimaVax-EGF is a Cuban developed drug aimed at preventing the recurrence of the disease. 56 –year-old Gomez is now back at work and ...

Music has a way of deeply touching people's emotions. Songs can stir memories that create joy, loss, happiness and heartbreak. Emotions like these are only part of the mix of feelings that accompany a lung cancer diagnosis. For Hildy Grossman, music has the ability to touch a person's highest emotional ...

The 29-year-old never expected a lingering cough to lead to a cancer diagnosis. But after a bout with bronchitis, then pneumonia and irregularities in a chest CT scan, he found himself in a doctor's office. Huff vividly remembers the day he was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. "I felt like I ...

In a presentation during the 2018 OncLive® State of the Science Summit™ on Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer, Denham, a medical oncologist at Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, discussed the use of immunotherapy beyond the first-line setting in NSCLC. In an interview during the event, he dove ...

OSE Immunotherapeutics received US Institutional Review Boards approval to continue recruiting patients for the temporarily paused Phase III testing of Tedopi, their immunotherapy for advanced lung cancer. OSE Immunotherapeutics, based in Nantes, develops immunotherapies to treat a variety of ...

Researchers studied state-specific measures of disease incidence, adult smoking prevalence, radon zones, five-year survival, stage at diagnosis, five-year survival by stage at diagnosis, surgery as part of the first course of treatment and accredited lung cancer screening centers. BY Katie Kosko.

In the new study, Chandrasekhar Kanduri — a professor of medical biochemistry and cell biology — and colleagues saw that by downregulating noncoding RNA activity, they were able to reduce tumor growth in a mouse model of lung cancer by 40 to 50 percent. According to Kanduri, "This link [between ...

Scientists are still unraveling whether and how sleep and the development and progression of various kinds of cancer are linked, but there is some evidence indicating that there's a connection between lung cancer and sleep related to two other conditions: disruption of circadian rhythm and obstructive ...

In the Berkeley Lab researchers' new study, an experimental cohort of 24 A/J mice (a strain susceptible to spontaneous lung cancer development) was housed with scraps of fabric impregnated with thirdhand smoke from the age of 4 weeks to 7 weeks. The dose the mice received was estimated to be about ...

"Amy announced something on facebook saying that she had lung cancer... and we knew that we needed to do it for Amy," Taylor-Paige Bourque told CBS 13. Bourque is the organizer of the annual “Celebration of Courage Hockey Tournament,” the event honors the life of Kylee Gendron, who died of cancer in June of 2012 ...

Early detection through CT scans is something oncologist Dr. Antoine Harb at Eastern Maine Medical Center's Cancer Care Center says is critical for people to understand because it can save lives, especially those with stage one, two and three lung cancer. "There's a big difference when you detect an ...