Word: lungfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...jick-tay-sha), but all they knew was that A-T was really bad. At home that night they read that about 40% of kids with A-T get cancer by age 12; 100% deteriorate neurologically, so they're in wheelchairs as early as age 8; most die of lung problems or cancer by their late teens or early 20s. "You kind of go through a grief process," Margus says. "Your kids aren't dead, but the kids you thought you had are gone...
...When the lung cancer drug Iressa won approval from the Food and Drug Administration almost a year ago, it showed great promise as a tumor suppressor with side effects far less severe than those of chemotherapy...
...group’s research estimated that about 10 percent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) carry the mutation. A written statement from the research team claimed that the discovery “stands to benefit thousands of patients with non-small cell lung cancer around the world...
...team also found that some groups of patients with lung carcinomas are significantly more likely than others to carry the EGFR mutation, which warranted further study, according to the report...
Female smokers have come a long way, baby, indeed. A report in J.A.M.A. warns that the extraordinary increase in lung-cancer deaths among U.S. women may soon be repeated in Asia and Africa, where taboos against women's smoking are weakening. The authors call for antismoking campaigns and for including more women in clinical studies, to better understand apparent gender differences in the disease. Unraveling that mechanism, the researchers stress, could ultimately help both men and women...