In July 15, the U. S. Food and Drug (FDA) Administration approved IRESSA (gefitinib) for the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors harbor specific types…
Category: Lung Cancer Treatment
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Lung Cancer Treatment: New Drug Shows Incredible Result
A new drug has given lung cancer patients an extra year of life, according to results from previous medicine. There are 200,000 people having diseased with lung cancer this year and almost…
Diagnoses of Lung Cancer Goes Down But Death Rate Remain High
If lung cancer is diagnosed at a first stage, there is a possibility of a cure. Nowadays, the diagnoses of lung cancer are expected to turn down, but death rates are increasing…
Immune Drug Shows Lower Death Rate Among Advance Lung Cancer
New clinical trial find that immune drug ‘nivolumab’ improve immune system to fight against most common form of lung cancer. Nivolumab increases the survival rate among those patients who suffering from squamous…
Using Statins May Lower The Risk Of Death Among Lung Cancer Patients
A study published in a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research shows that lung cancer patients those taking statins before or after diagnoses of lung cancer can reduce the risk…
Merck’s Drug Keytruda for Treatment of NSCLC
Lung cancer is one of the most serious types of cancer and it is a malignant lung tumor caused by out of control cell growth. It can start in the windpipe, the…
Cuba’s Cimavax, Lung Cancer Vaccine Is Heading to U.S.
The world’s first lung cancer vaccine called as Cimavax was launched back in 2011 by Cuba. Cuban government made the vaccine free for public. Today, other countries want to try out the…
When Tissue Test Fails, DNA Test Find Genetic Mutations In Lung Cancer
Cancer DNA circulates in bloods even when no lung cancer tissues presents in body. DNA tests can help doctors to detect Lung Cancer without Biopsy. In European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) in…