Article: Genetics May Increase Smokers' Lung Cancer Risk

Article: Allegheny General helps prevent, detect and treat lung cancer
New Pittsburgh Courier;  December 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Allegheny General helps prevent, detect and treat lung cancer More than 170,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lung cancer each year. For African-Americans, lung cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed each year...

Article: Diet may help protect nonsmokers (even smokers) against lung cancer.
Environmental Nutrition;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lung cancer is becoming more pervasive, striking...prostate cancers, which strike more people, lung cancer is particularly lethal; it's the leading...accounts for only 13% of cancer diagnoses, lung cancer is responsible for almost a third of...

Article: The deadliest cancer women face now: what you must know--whether you smoke or not: women who don't smoke are twice as likely to get lung cancer as nonsmoking men. the really scary part? Research on this "guilty" disease is still woefully underfunded, so help is not on the way. Here, why you're more vulnerable, plus how you can protect your health.(cancer report)
Redbook;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...you have lung cancer. Oncologist Harvey Pass, M.D., always...this was happening to her. Fact is, lung cancer kills more women than breast, ovarian...shock--to her and to you? Because lung cancer has long been brushed aside as the...

Article: Specialists warn that inadequate funding treats lung cancer as 'the poor relation'.
PR Newswire;  August 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Columbia, August 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Lung cancer specialists from around the world are warning that lung cancer receives less funding than other common...carried out at the 10th World Congress on Lung Cancer (10-14 August, Vancouver, Canada...

Article: Growing Evidence of Sex-Based Differences in Lung Cancer Highlighted at Roundtable Meeting.
PR Newswire;  February 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Advocacy Groups Unite To Make Lung Cancer in Women a Top Educational and Research...6 /PRNewswire/ -- Women's health and lung cancer advocacy groups, led by the Society...Health Research, vowed today to make lung cancer education and advocacy, especially among...

Article: Lung-cancer fight an uphill battle for women
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  November 14, 2003 ;     526 words ...WASHINGTON -- It is lung cancer, not breast cancer, that kills the most American women, lung cancer advocacy groups noted at a congressional briefing on Thursday. But during November, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, there will be few marches...

Article: New molecularly targeted therapies for lung cancer.(Science in Medicine)
Journal of Clinical Investigation;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death...pathogenesis and biologic behavior of lung cancer have led to the development of rationally...Global cancer statistics indicate that lung cancer is responsible for over 1 million deaths...

Article: Screening, Treating, & Surviving Lung Cancer
Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  August 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Tennessee TRIBUNE, The 08-25-2005 Who Gets Lung Cancer, and How to Handle It: Q&A By Miranda...News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD Lung cancer has entered the headlines with the recent...by Christopher Reeve's widow, Dana. Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths...

Article: Lung Cancer Alliance Commends Research on Non-Smoking Lung Cancer Cases
U.S. Newswire;  March 5, 2007 ;     406 words ......EDITORS Contact: Kay Cofrancesco of Lung Cancer Alliance, +1-202-744- 1541, kcofrancesco...5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) commended the work of...non-smokers who are being diagnosed with lung cancer. According to the report, which followed...

Article: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: Lung cancer screening gets an edge
New Haven Register;  October 30, 2006 ;     551 words ...Results of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program, recently published...that CT imaging to screen for lung cancer may save lives. Nearly 32,000...40 and at increased risk of lung cancer due to tobacco or occupational...

Article: National Survey Reveals Americans Lack Understanding About Lung Cancer Testing Options.
PR Newswire;  March 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Lung Cancer Alliance Calls for Funding for Early Testing...PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A new national survey released by the Lung Cancer Alliance reveals that Americans are uninformed about options for lung cancer testing. Lung cancer is the number one cause...

Article: Xillix Technologies Corp.: Lung Cancer Screening Legislation Introduced to U.S. House of Representatives
CCNMatthews Newswire;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......LUMBIA--(CCNMatthews - June 1, 2006) - Early Lung Cancer Detection includes Fluorescence Bronchoscopy...bronchoscopy for the early detection of lung cancer, highlighted precedent-setting legislation...R-FL) that supports early detection of lung cancer and lung cancer ...

Article: Passport to Wellness: Women are ravaged by lung cancer
Maryland Gazette;  March 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Lung cancer kills more women each year than breast...die in the United States this year of lung cancer, a staggering number that has risen more...over the last 20 years. The rates of lung cancer deaths in men have risen only 20 percent...

Article: Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers Is Sixth Biggest Cancer Killer
U.S. Newswire;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......EDITORS Contact: Kay Cofrancesco, Lung Cancer Alliance, +1-202-463-2080, kay...Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- While lung cancer in smokers and former smokers is the biggest cancer killer by far, lung cancer in people who have never smoked...