Sentences with phrase «testing by the lung cancer»

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Now a new clinical trial is under way, by New York's Mount Sinai, to test a vaccine to combat recurrence in some of the most deadly forms of cancer, including lung, breast, gynecological and bladder cancers.

A team led by Lu You, an oncologist at Sichuan University's West China Hospital in Chengdu, plans to start testing such cells in people with lung cancer next month.

If we are able to refine a test to diagnose lung cancer by measuring breath temperature, we will improve the diagnostic process by providing patients with a stress - free and simple test that is also cheaper and less intensive for clinicians.»

By December 2007 Shaw had joined the clinical team testing Xalkori at Mass General and soon enrolled her first few ALK - positive lung cancer patients.

We compared adjusted and unadjusted estimates separately for each outcome in both non-small cell and small cell lung cancer, and we tested for statistical heterogeneity by using the I2 test.

It's estimated that if everyone who qualified for screening underwent these tests, the mortality rate from lung cancer could be decreased by 20 percent.

Cough can also be due to pneumonia, heartworms, lungworms, collapsing trachea, bronchitis, lung cancer, and many other disorders that can only be diagnosed by chest X-rays and other testing.

Last year, scientists tested ordinary household dogs with basic puppy training and discovered they could detect cancer just by smelling the breath of lung and breast cancer patients.