Test Identifies Smokers Likely to Get Lung Cancer
A new urine test may distinguish which smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer by detecting whether smokers have a particular chemical in their urine that has been linked to lung cancer. The risk of lung cancer was 8.5 times higher in those who had the highest levels of this chemical, NNAL, and the highest nicotine levels.
Religion and Faith Impact End-of-Life Care
Terminally ill patients with cancer who relied on religion and spirituality were likely to receive intensive life-prolonging medical care such as mechanical ventilation or cardiopulmonary resuscitation during their last week of life.
New Vaccination Provides Instant Immunity
A new type of vaccine overcomes a major drawback of vaccinations, the lag time of days or weeks that it normally takes for immunity to build against a pathogen. The new method of vaccination could be used to provide instantaneous protection against diseases caused by viruses, bacteria, cancers, and toxins.
Ovarian Cancer Screening May Lead to Unnecessary Surgeries
Screening for ovarian cancer often leads to unnecessary surgeries and does not detect the disease in its early stages, according to a new report from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.
Stem Cells Create Personalized Tumors
Using ovarian cancer cells and human embryonic stem cells, researchers have created a cancerous tumor in a mouse that mimics the tumor that would have developed in a human body.
New DNA Test for Cervical Cancer Outperforms Pap Test
A new DNA test for the virus that causes cervical cancer is so much better at identifying the human papillomavirus that it could eventually replace the Pap test, according to a new study.
For more details about these news stories, see Just In and New Treatments, New Hope in the July issue. |
