Research conducted by the NSW Cancer Institute in New South Wales, Australia, is predicting lung cancer will soon replace breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among NSW women.
According to the institute’s statistics, lung cancer will kill 43 more NSW women annually than breast cancer by the year 2010. [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new warnings on several drugs commonly prescribed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments.
The drugs, known as Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents or ESAs, contain genetically engineered proteins used to increase red blood cell counts in many patients with cancer or chronic kidney failure.
The new warnings [...]

Results of a Swedish study published in the November 2007 issue of The Lancet Oncology show children of parents who survived certain cancers are more likely to survive the disease if it strikes them too.
To arrive at their conclusion, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm Söder Hospital, studied data on over three [...]

The Iron Range Resources Board has voted to spend $250,000 for medical testing on miners to support a University of Minnesota School of Public Health study on mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer that disproportionately strikes mine workers.
Tom Rukavina (DFL) from the Minnesota House of Representatives proposed the funding after the Minnesota [...]

Medical studies have been linking airborne volcanic ash to chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer, and silicosis for many years. Now a researcher at Durham University, United Kingdom, has developed a method for minimizing those potential health risks for victims of future eruptions.
Dr Claire Howell, of Durham’s Institute of [...]

Scientists from the University of Chieti in Italy have found that a gene which normally functions in the placenta during the early stages of pregnancy is also expressed in most human cancers.
Professor Saverio Alberti and his team discovered that the Trop-2 gene was involved in the formation of invasive cells needed during the stage between [...]

Thanks to earlier detection and better treatments, millions of people can now call themselves cancer survivors. But once the strict regimen of blood tests, chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery is over and the patient leaves the cancer center, what do they need to do to keep that precious title?
The stark reality is that many survivors [...]

Jodi Perkins got so frustrated by her failed attempts to quit smoking that she called the Polk County Jail and asked to be locked up.
The sheriff’s department was sympathetic, but they couldn’t help her out—their jail was already full.
Jodi’s nicotine addiction has grown into a two pack a day obsession that she is desperate to [...]

Results from a recent Ministry of Health (MOH) poll show at least one million school age children in Kenya are already hooked on cigarettes.
Smoking is a known cause of lung cancer and is directly responsible for five million deaths worldwide each year. Unfortunately, many people find it difficult to stop using tobacco once they [...]

A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) study has shown that emissions from common office printers can pose as much threat to your lungs as secondhand cigarette smoke.
The International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health tested 62 machines and found that almost 30 percent produced dangerously high levels of ultra-fine particle emissions. Once released into [...]