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AP via Newsday - will have worldwide rights to cancer treatment Abraxane, which is marketed in for metastatic breast cancer and is being developed for other breast, lung, ovarian, prostate, melanoma

CT Scans Can Detect Lung Cancer That X-Rays Cannot
ABCNEWS.com - CT Scans Can Detect Lung Cancer That X-Rays Cannot Some Health Experts Say Scans May Lead to of Peter Jennings' battle with lung cancer, she decided to ask for

Olympia Dukakis Speaks Out to Patients With Bone Pain Caused by Cancer: A New Clinical Trial May Provide Hope
PR Newswire - Many Cancer Patients Do Not Seek Help for Pain NUTLEY, N.J., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Academy-Award-winning actressOlympia Dukakis watched helplessly as her close friend suffered fromexcruciating bone pain caused by cancer. myeloma, 62 percent of patients with lung cancer,and 42 percent of patients with prostate cancer.

Schering starts Phase II trials with anti-cancer compound ZK-EPO
AFX via Forbes.com - Schering starts Phase II trials with anti-cancer compound ZK-EPO 11.30.2005, 03:02 non-small cell lung cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer. ZK-EPO is

More blacks refuse lung cancer surgery than whites
ABCNEWS.com - are three times as likely as whites to refuse surgical treatment for lung cancer, a new study shows certain types of early stage lung cancer, and can often cure the

Some smokers undeterred
USA Today - Up to half of smokers continue to light up cigarettes after being diagnosed with cancer even though tobacco use substantially increases a patient's risk of death, a new study shows. smoking makes cancer therapies less effective and increases the risk of heart problems, infections, lung trouble and

Detecting cancers before symptoms become apparent
Medical News Today - University of Florida researchers say they are a step closer to a technique to easily detect a wide variety of cancers before symptoms become apparent. burst after they adhere to cancer proteins. The technique could enable forms of cancer, and have been found in patients with malignancies of the ovaries, kidneys, lung, pancreas and