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MTBeurope, UK - Jul 16, 2008
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Earthtimes (press release), UK - 11 minutes ago
... the first patient treated for an intracranial lesion was completed in only 16 minutes. The next patient, treated for non-small cell lung cancer, ...
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In addition, the Zilver PTX stent exhibited no safety concerns and results were better than expected for TASC class C and D lesions, occlusions, ...ANPI
Long battle ends for teen with valley fever
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If the disease has gone to other parts of the body, it can cause nodules, ulcers, skin lesions, painful lesions in the skull and other bones, swollen joints ...
Challenges in the prenatal and post-natal diagnosis of ...
7thSpace Interactive (press release), NY - Aug 1, 2008
At operation, the lesion was compressed by the left lung and was found to be close to the left phrenic nerve, which was carefully identified and preserved. ...
Oral cancer test's value unproven
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Prognostic Value of [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomographic Scanning in Patients with … -
W Wang, SM Larson, M Fazzari, SK Tickoo, K Kolbert … - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2000 - Endocrine Soc
... including thyroid bed uptake only) RAI uptake in metastatic lesions (P = 0.34) during
this ... The day 7 posttherapy scan (A1) showed bilateral lung uptake. ...

Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Patients with Nonsmall Cell Lung Carcinoma Metastatic to the Brain -
YS Kim, D Kondziolka, JC Flickinger, LD Lunsford - CANCER, 1997 - doi.wiley.com
... no impact on survival (P ? 0.34, log rank ... alone for patients with meta- static lung
carcinoma extended ... Brain metastases are ideal lesions for radio- surgery ...

[PDF] 64Cu-TETA-octreotide as a PET imaging agent for patients with neuroendocrine tumors -
CJ Anderson, F Dehdashti, PD Cutler, SW Schwarz, R … - J Nucl Med, 2001 - chempet.wustl.edu
... Liver 0.10 (0.027) 0.14 (0.039) 0.34 (0.091) ... 8 64 M Islet cell NF pancreatic
1/lung, mild uptake No lesions ? Numerous/liver, bone, pancreas ...
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Expression of the neutrophil chemoattractant interleukin-8 in the lesions of bovine pneumonic … -
JL Caswell, DM Middleton, SD Sorden, JR Gordon - Veterinary Pathology Online, 1998 - Am Coll Vet Pathol
... lesional lung contained 16.06 +- 4.00 rig/ml IL-S, whereas those from nonlesional
and normal lung contained 0.34 ? ... Lung extracts from lesions of pneumonic ...

A Comparison of the Inflammatory Response of the Lung to Inhaled versus Instilled Particles in F344 … -
RF HENDERSON, KE DRISCOLL, JR HARKEMA, RC … - Toxicological Sciences, 1995 - Soc Toxicology
... to pro- duce bronchoalveolitis and granulomatous lesions in BALT ... TABLE 4 Response
of Lung to Inhaled vs Instilled ... 19) 0.50 (0.05) 0.26 (0.06) 0.34 (0.04) 1.54 ...

… [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography Staging of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Dutch … -
GJM Herder, H Kramer, OS Hoekstra, EF Smit, J … - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2006 - jcojournal.org
... distant metastases (38 of 85; 95% CI, 0.34 to 0.56 ... P = .4). Staging errors included
benign lesions (TWU, n ... malignancy (TWU, n = 2), other primary lung tumor (TWU ...

Screening for Lung Cancer* A Review of the Current Literature -
PB Bach, MJ Kelley, RC Tate, DC McCrory - Chest, 2003 - Am Coll Chest Phys
... rises to about 340 per 100,000 (0.34%) in 75 ... identified as requiring biopsies because
their lesions were highly ... in fact have histologically confirmed lung cancer ...

Low-dose multislice CT of the thorax in follow-up of malignant lymphoma and extrapulmonary primary … -
HP Dinkel, M Sonnenschein, H Hoppe, P Vock - European Radiology, 2003 - Springer
... between standard-dose and low- dose technique for lung lesion conspicuity (tau=0.51 ...
present for lesion conspicuity in soft tissue lesions (tau=0.14, p=0.34). ...

Effects of low (modified-live virus vaccine) and high (VR-2385)-virulence strains of porcine … -
R Thanawongnuwech, PG Halbur, MR Ackermann, EL … - Veterinary Pathology Online, 1998 - Am Coll Vet Pathol
... 1.76 1.77 + 0.34 1.67 1.69 1.45 + 0.32 1.60 1.55 1.39 + 0.32 1.47 ... protein- aceous
fluid as previously described.? The microscop- ic lung lesions induced by ...

Atypical radiological images of pulmonary tuberculosis in 192 diabetic patients: a comparative study -
C Perez-Guzman, A Torres-Cruz, H Villarreal- … - Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, 2001 - ingentaconnect.com
... ties in these lung fields were unilateral in 82% of the cases (P 0.01, Table 3).
Multiple cavitary lesions at any site of the lung ... 1.87 0.22 2.18 0.34 ns ...

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Inflammatory Biomarker Helps Identify Progressive Precancerous Lesions In The Lung

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C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker for inflammation in the blood, can help to identify individuals whose abnormal precancerous lesions will advance closer to invasive lung cancer.

The results appear in the first issue for March 2005 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society.

Stephen Lam, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., of the Lung Tumour Group, British Columbia Cancer Agency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and three associates measured CRP, lung function and other inflammatory markers in 65 individuals. All participants had at least one abnormal cell site in their lungs (bronchial dysplasia) greater than 1.2 millimeters in size, which was biopsied at the start of the study and re-examined 6 months later.

Of the study cohort, 49 individuals (75 percent) were men, with 48 classified as current smokers. On average, study participants were 57 years old and had 52 pack-years of smoking history.

"Lung cancer is a worldwide epidemic," said Dr. Lam. "More than 300 million people die of this disease annually. In the United States alone, 170,000 new cases of lung cancer are reported each year. Most of these are non-small cell lung cancer and the overall prognosis once diagnosed is dismal. The only reasonable chance of cure is surgical resection for early stage tumors. However, most patients with early lung cancer are asymptomatic. Symptoms usually develop after the tumors become invasive or disseminated and curative resection is infeasible."

Consequently, researchers have been working to find novel non-invasive or semi-invasive methods of identifying individuals who harbor progressive precancerous lesions. If detected early, these lesions might be treated with a chemopreventive agent to impede progress to invasive carcinoma.

In the study, the level of CRP only differed between individuals who either did or did not develop progression in their bronchial lesions.

"The odds of developing progressive disease were 9.6 fold higher in the group that had CRP greater than 0.5 mg per liter compared with the group less than this threshold," said Dr. Lam.

There were 32 subjects whose bronchial lesions had progressed to a more abnormal state when biopsied after 6 months.

"These data are consistent with the prevailing hypothesis that squamous cell carcinoma arises from preinvasive lesions in stepwise fashion, which is called the sequential theory of cancer development," said Dr. Lam. "This hypothesis is supported by animal experiments mimicking human carcinogenesis."

The authors believe that these results will be helpful in designing future chemopreventive and early detection studies by identifying high-risk subjects for non-small cell lung cancer.

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Contact: Stephen Lam, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., Lung Tumour Group, British Columbia Cancer Agency, University of British Columbia, 675 West
10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1L3
Phone: (604) 675-8094
E-mail: slam@bccancer.bc.ca

Contact: Suzy Martin
smartin@thoracic.org
American Thoracic Society
 
 
 
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