Sentences with phrase «lung cancer who»

Just as it would be «unproductive» to attribute the death of an individual life - long tobacco smoker from lung cancer to their tobacco smoking, since after all, some people smoke tobacco all their lives and don't get cancer, while others die of lung cancer who have never smoked tobacco.

This drug will be used for patients with metastatic or advanced lung cancer who did not respond to previous treatments.

Life table modelling on the basis of these data estimated 33 % five year survival in 65 year old patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer who continued to smoke compared with 70 % in those who quit smoking.

«Patients with inoperable, early - stage lung cancer who receive stereotactic body radiation therapy have 40 % five - year survival rate.»

The proportion of patients with lung cancer who smoked more than 30 pack - years declined, and the proportion of former smokers, especially those who quit smoking more than 15 years ago, increased.

Now doctors have investigated the use of crizotinib in patients with ALK positive lung cancer who have not yet received any chemotherapy treatment.

They found that people with lung cancer who had lots of trunk antigens — and a high proportion of trunk antigens to branch antigens — survived longer than those who had either few trunk antigens or a higher proportion of branch antigens.

In addition, the study showed that the 5 - year survival rate for selected older patients with advanced lung cancer who were treated with surgical therapy was 29.9 % for Stage III and 26.7 % for Stage IV.

In a head - to - head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people with squamous - non-small cell lung cancer who received nivolumab lived, on average, 3.2 months longer than those receiving chemotherapy.

LES FUNTLEYDER, E SQUARED CAPITAL: Very good news for people with lung cancer who desperately need some good news.

Urbanic said the overall findings of the study suggest that there are some patients with recurrent lung cancers who can be treated with another definitive course of radiation therapy and still have a chance at a cure.

Not exact matches

A large, long - term study of male smokers found that those who regularly took Vitamin A were more likely to get lung cancer than those who didn't.

«The problem with lung cancer today is we don't have great tools to diagnose it,» says Morgan Stanley analyst David Lewis, who has covered Intuitive for a decade.

More than 800 of these people were found to have invasive lung cancers over the study's course, and the risk seemed to be especially associated with men who took discrete supplements with vitamin B6 or B12.

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Yet we do not go to cancer wards preaching to the victims of lung cancer about their sinful lifestyles... Could it be that the weight of our moral judgments is clouded by the fact that a lot of conservatives smoke (smoking can even cause harm to nonsmokers who are unwilling breathers of the cancer - causing substance)?

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People who smoke cigarettes get lung cancer, not Joe Schmoe walking his dog past a house coming down.

Or He decided who will smoke themselves to lung cancer.

By your logic people who smoke knew the danger and did it anyway too, would you deny them lung cancer treatment?

And they are MY wages, not yours, not the homeless family's, not the lifelong smoker now suffering from lung cancer, not the single mother of five who is struggling to make ends meet.

**** OT **** Sad to here the bad news of my all time Favorite footballer Johan Cruijjf OON, who was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Gilbert, who was 55 when he died from lung cancer on Jan. 21, was a hero to the nation's club pros.

Before beginning her presentation, VP Susana Monje sent a message of support to Johan Cruyff, who just announced that he has lung cancer.

«I'm sorry, but f**k cancer,» Kerr said in France after winning the contest staged in memory of LET player Cassandra Kirkland, who died earlier this year at age 32 from lung cancer, and just days after former LPGA Tour golfer Kelli Kuehne's mother passed away from the disease.

He kesems to remember and honor his father who passed away from lung cancer.

The press conference came several days after the death of police officer Marcy Simms, who died of lung cancer she developed after being exposed to the Ground Zero site.

I remember reading an article many years ago that mentioned a doctor who brought his medical students to see an example of an extremely rare disease in the early 20th century, thinking this might be the only time most would see it in their entire careers; the disease was lung cancer.

A statement on his website revealed that the 62 - year - old, who spent the last decade of his life protesting in Parliament Square, lost his battle with lung cancer early on Saturday morning.

The bill is named after Lavern Wilkinson, a 41 - year - old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after doctors at Kings County Hospital misdiagnosed her.

One of those first responders was Kevin Byrnes, an NYC battalion chief who passed away in 2004 from lung cancer.

The bill is named for Brooklyn resident Lavern Wilkinson, who died of lung cancer at age 41.

Wilkinson was a 41 - year - old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after doctors at Kings County Hospital misdiagnosed her.

These include 46,000 heart attack deaths and 3,400 lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke.

She is the widow of a colleague of Mr. Bruno's, Senator Ronald Stafford, who died in 2005 of lung cancer.

«We feel it'll be able to help kill cancer cells in 80 percent of breast cancer patients,» said Dr. Olson, who added that their antibody has the potential to help kill lung, colon, prostate and other cancer cells, too.

The family of a 67 year old South Bronx woman, who died of lung cancer, is holding the New York City Housing Authority responsible for her death due to the horrible living conditions of her apartment.

In the state Senate, the measure was sponsored by Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), who spoke on the floor before the vote about her parents, both of whom suffered from lung cancer.

The effort, which was part of a Daily News campaign in 2015, is named after Lavern Wilkinson, a 41 - year - old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after doctors at Kings County Hospital misdiagnosed her.

Geoff Oxnard, an assistant professor of medicine at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston and one of Paweletz's collaborators, remarks that «I had a hospitalized patient last week, she's sick with metastatic lung cancer, and she's exactly the kind of patient who might have an [epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RSB- mutation, but I simply didn't have enough tissue to ask those questions yet.&Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School in Boston and one of Paweletz's collaborators, remarks that «I had a hospitalized patient last week, she's sick with metastatic lung cancer, and she's exactly the kind of patient who might have an [epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RSB- mutation, but I simply didn't have enough tissue to ask those questions yet.&cancer, and she's exactly the kind of patient who might have an [epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RSB- mutation, but I simply didn't have enough tissue to ask those questions yet.»

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

«What is particularly encouraging is that we are now able to select, based on features in the tumor, approximately a quarter of advanced lung cancer patients who can receive immunotherapy as their initial treatment.

Additionally, lung cancer patients who have high levels of YAP1 in their tumors are more likely to have a poorer prognosis than patients with low levels of YAP1.

Both of the researchers, who are in their early forties, said they were motivated by the need to give lung cancer patients better options.

For example, lung cancer patients who were injected with killed M. vaccae reported better quality of life and less nausea and pain.

The Chinese trial will enrol patients who have metastatic non-small cell lung cancer and for whom chemotherapy, radiation therapy and other treatments have failed.

The generations of women who started smoking in the 1960s and 1970s are now starting to develop lung cancer.

One, in which Dr. Weiss was the senior author, highlighted the extended survival of metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients who received statins.

Among patients who have this type of lung cancer, nearly one in three will carry a particular genetic mutation on their cancer cells.

Fewer than half of all patients who undergo surgery for lung cancer survive as long as 5 years.