"It will be a significant progress for lung cancer, " says Herbst, also an Iressa trial investigator.
The first clinical and epidemiological studies linking cigarette-smoking and lung cancer were published only in 1950.
Miners became exposed to high levels of radon and suffered increased rates of lung cancer.
However, it is not just stigma that has led to the under-funding of lung cancer.
It turned out to be the result of lung cancer that had gone to his brain.
It contains heavy metals, such as lead, and inhaling its dust can cause lung cancer.
The late 20th century rock star and malcontent, Warren Zevon, succumbed to lung cancer at 52.
In 25 years of treating lung cancer he had never seen anything like it.
One type of chemotherapy works about 6% of the time in late-stage lung cancer.
Lung cancer is Northern Ireland's biggest cancer killer, with 850 people diagnosed each year.
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The group found that patients with small cell lung cancer did have signs of the antibodies.
Would it mean that I had less bad news to give about lung cancer?
Lung cancer rates have more than doubled for women over 60 since the mid-1970s, figures show.
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The dogs successfully identified 71 samples of lung cancer out of a possible 100.
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It is testing the new drug against lung cancer, stomach-lining tumors and prostate cancer as well.
But there is a significant risk in using Avastin for treatment of lung cancer.
There are two other non-small cell lung cancer trials of Nexavar listed on clinicaltrials.gov.
And his grandfather was a smoker until a doctor told him that he had lung cancer.
Pfizer is also stopping two midstage studies of the same medicine, also in lung cancer.
Now Glaxo is conducting giant final-stage trial in over 2000 early-stage lung cancer patients.
Slevin continues to have serious medical issues, and is fighting lung cancer, his lawyer said.
The same drug improves survival by one month when used as maintenance therapy for lung cancer.
One vaccine, from GlaxoSmithKline, uses a protein called MAGE-A3 found on lung cancer cells.
But the radiologists were asked to search for lung cancer nodules alone and nothing else.
Not surprisingly, the radiologists were also much better at spotting the warning signs of lung cancer.
Then he asks, who will pay a dollar to find a cure for lung cancer?
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Her husband, the artist Stephan Weiss, succumbed to lung cancer after a valiant decade-long fight.
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It was designed to treat patients whose lung cancer is driven by the ALK oncogene.
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It is focusing on breast, bowel and lung cancer, the three main cancers that affect Scots.
What is also striking, and horrifying, is how quickly lung cancer kills sufferers.
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