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Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body.
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The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75 percent across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy "Westernised" lifestyles, a study said on Friday.
Many developing countries were expected to see a rise in living standards in coming decades, said the paper from the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France.But those advances could come at a cost - an increase in cases of cancers linked to poor diet, lack of exercise and other bad habits associated with affluence and linked to diseases like breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, it added."Cancer is already the leading cause of death in many high-income countries and is set to become a major cause of morbidity (sickness) and mortality in the next decades in every region of the world," said Freddie Bray from IARC's cancer information section.The study was the first to look at how present and future rates of cancer ...The way lung cancer patients feel around the time they're diagnosed may be related to how long they survive -- even after taking into account objective measures of t...
A large government study has found that routine chest X-rays, once a common type of screening, do not prevent lung cancer deaths.The study included more than 150,000...
People recently diagnosed with lung cancer are at higher risk of having a stroke than those without lung tumors, suggests a large new study from Taiwan .Researchers ...
Despite some evidence tying the mineral selenium to a reduced risk of lung cancer , a new long-term study sees no connection between the two.In fact, researchers fou...
People who eat a lot of unfermented soy products like tofu may have a smaller chance of getting lung cancer , a fresh look at past research suggests.There is still n...
A video of a smoking two-year-old in Indonesia caused an uproar after it appeared on YouTube in March, before it was quickly removed from the site. The video of the ...
Commonly used diabetes drugs such as metformin may help control lung cancer , and may help prevent it, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.Patients who had taken th...
Your toenails may hold clues to your risk of developing lung cancer , a new study finds.The results show men with high levels of nicotine in their toenails were abou...
British scientists have found that counting the number of lung cancer cells circulating in a patient's blood could help determine how aggressive the cancer is and pr...
U.S. researchers have identified a gene mutation in some squamous cell lung cancer patients that appeared to respond to Sprycel, a Bristol-Myers Squibb drug used to ...
Fewer American adults are smoking cigarettes, and those who still smoke have cut back on the number of cigarettes they smoke, but the rate of decline has begun to sl...
Imagine being told out of nowhere that someone you love has lung cancer and their chances of survival look grim. Now, imagine that your loved one doesn't smoke and i...
New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers.The advice appli...
Scientists from the Mayo Clinic have identified a single gene that appears to be a major driving force in the development and spread of the most common form of lung ...
In a new study of more than 1,200 Asian women, those who took aspirin at least a couple of times a week had a much lower risk of developing lung cancer -- whether or...
A little more than a year ago, my eye doctor prescribed new disposable contact lenses. My insurance, he explained, would pay for only one six-month supply per year."...
The eight-season run of House, M.D. has provided viewers with plenty of diagnoses to scratch their heads over. Here are seven of the strangest:Cushing's syndrome A ...
Target has joined the ranks of other clothing stores who have banned the practice of sandblasting denim because the technique has been linked with an incurable form ...
A controversial radiation treatment for patients who've had lung cancer surgery may not help elderly people live longer, U.S. researchers have found.Postoperative ra...
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