Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Congratulations! You’ve just done something completely ordinary, yet so mysterious that scientists still don’t know everything about it. How oxygen and carbon dioxide enter and leave the bloodstream is well known, but scientists are just beginning to understand what happens to respiratory tissues as…
Fullerene compounds will help in the fight against lung cancer
A team of scientists from Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology, the Institute for Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences and National Taiwan University has discovered that fullerene compounds can effectively kill non-small-cell lung carcinoma cells and found the mechanisms behind their anti-tumor activity. Lung cancer…
Blood test could spare thousands of lung cancer patients from chemo
New blood test could spare thousands of lung cancer patients from chemotherapy by spotting if tumour will spread Three studies conducted as part of Cancer Research UK £14m TRACERx project Researchers found amount of tumour cells in blood predicted cancer’s evolution Discovered lung tumours release multiple cells to confuse our…
Vaping-linked lung illness claims seventh victim
A 40-year-old California man is the seventh person to die from a severe respiratory illness brought on by using electronic cigarettes. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, so far, 380 people in 36 states have come down with the vaping-related lung sickness. On Monday, the agency…
Fitness fanatic showed no symptoms despite 20 tumours growing in lung
University student, 21, discovers he has 20 cancerous tumours on his right lung – despite showing no symptoms Routine check up found tumours growing inside Dan McGill, 21, from Leicester Medics just as stunned as the graphic design student, who showed no symptoms He’s building gym in back garden so he…
A woman’s contraceptive implant travelled from her arm to her LUNG
Woman, 31, needs surgery after her contraceptive implant travelled from her arm to her LUNG in ‘very rare’ incident Doctors at a hospital in Portugal couldn’t find the implant when they felt for it Scans of her upper body revealed it had moved into the bottom of her left lung…
Lung damage can be measured with a sensor almost as thin a human HAIR
Lung damage can now be measured with a sensor ‘as thin as a human HAIR’ which can probe depths other technology can’t reach Probe contains 19 sensors that pick up on abnormalities deep in the lungs Enables doctors to ‘instantly’ diagnose lung diseases like pneumonia Also allows medics to monitor a…
Virtually all organs are affected – air pollution harms our body!
Air pollution has serious consequences for the health The air pollution has increased in many regions, already a harmful extent. How far-reaching the threat of adverse impact, in the current study. Because virtually every Organ is affected by the effects of air pollution. In a recent study by the University…
Fatal COPD – lung disease is announced years before
Lung disease COPD: cough and shortness of breath first warnings Often, the chronic lungs diseases undetected. It was only much later, when the stage of the disease is incurable, the Affected to the doctor. The diagnosis is made in time, can slow down the therapy the progression. Anyone who suffers…
A deep-learning model may help predict lung cancer survival and outcomes
A deep-learning model developed using serial image scans of tumors from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) predicted treatment response and survival outcomes better than standard clinical parameters. The study is published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, by Hugo Aerts, Ph.D.,…
Why ARE so many non-smokers dying of lung cancer?
Why ARE so many non-smokers dying of lung cancer? Former marketing manager, 54, is one of thousands with disease despite never picking up a cigarette ‘because cough symptoms aren’t treated as dangerous’ Debra Montague, 54, has advanced lung cancer despite never having smoked Cases of cancer in non-smokers have doubled…