lung cancer research

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) Dr. Glen Weiss, who holds joint appointments at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and at the Virginia G.

Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare, is the new Chief Medical Officer of an international lung cancer research consortium.

Tamoxifen, the medication long used to prevent the growth of breast cancer tumors, also appears to reduce the risk of dying from lung cancer, research suggests.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research published in the January issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology provides compelling evidence of increased lung cancer risk among people with tuberculosis.

(Boston University Medical Center) Uniting Against Lung Cancer (Uniting) announces the Caine Halter Hope Now Award for Lung Cancer Research.

This year's recipient is Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of medicine, pathology and laboratory medicine and director, Translational Bioinformatics Program, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Boston University.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Because primary lung adenocarcinoma is exceedingly rare in the pediatric population, it is difficult to properly classify certain lung tumors in children and adolescents.

Through an assessment of clinical, tissue-based and molecular data for pediatric lung cancer, research published in the November edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology determined that pulmonary lesions found in young patients with pediatric cancers can be histologically indistinguishable from lung adenocarcinoma seen in adults.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research published in the June edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology sought to investigate the time trends of surgical outcomes of patients with non-small cell lung cancer between 1979 and 2008.

The incidence of lung cancer continues to rise; therefore, countermeasures to decrease death rates have become an important public health issue.

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) Following its first major Arizona fundraising event, the national Lung Cancer Research Foundation will donate $25,000 for lung cancer studies at the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research published in the March edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology explored the importance of a patient's outlook as it relates to health behavior and health status.

Researchers focused on lung cancer patients and discovered that those who exhibited an optimistic disposition experienced more favorable outcomes than those with a pessimistic disposition.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research released in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology sought to determine and validate the efficacy of the recent reclassification of the T category in the IASLC's Staging Manual in Thoracic Oncology.The medical records of 1,393 patients with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent complete resection were thoroughly reviewed for pathologic findings and survival.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research published in the November 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found that intervals between lung cancer suspicion, diagnosis and treatment may be attributed to health care system discrepancies.