by Cancer Research UK Early signs that a patient’s lung cancer may spread and become untreatable can be picked up in samples of their blood and tumour, according to a trio of papers published in Nature Medicine today. The three studies are all part of Cancer Research UK’s £14million TRACERx project, which aims to understand...
Tag: <span>Lung disease</span>
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Screening for lung cancer based on risk could save lives
by Andrea Laferle, University of Michigan Changing the way individuals are selected to be screened for lung cancer, by considering their probability of getting or dying from lung cancer calculated from risk-prediction models, could prevent 14 percent of lung cancer deaths per year. The Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network Lung Working Group (CISNET), which...
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Inflammation triggers silent mutation to cause deadly lung disease
Date:August 29, 2019 Source:Stanford Medicine Summary:Researchers have found that inflammation in the lungs of rats, triggered by something as simple as the flu, may wake up a silent genetic defect that causes sudden onset cases of pulmonary hypertension, a deadly form of high blood pressure in the lungs. Researchers at the Stanford University School of...
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Air pollution can accelerate lung disease as much as a pack a day of cigarettes
by University of Washington Air pollution—especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change—accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. While previous studies have shown a clear connection of air pollutants with some heart and...
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The hand-held breath test that spots lung diseases in just one minute
By ROGER DOBSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 18:15 EDT, 20 May 2019 | UPDATED: 18:27 EDT, 20 May 2019 A one-minute breath test could speed up lung disease diagnosis and help ensure patients get the correct treatment. The hand-held device measures levels of hydrogen peroxide in breath. Hydrogen peroxide is best known as a key bleaching ingredient in hair dye, but it is also naturally produced by the...
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Inhaled nanoparticles could treat lung cancer
by Queensland University of Technology QUT pharmaceutical scientist Dr. Nazrul Islam, from School of Clinical Sciences, said lung cancer was one of the most common cancers globally and one of the deadliest, being a leading cause of cancer deaths. He said chitosan had long been investigated for drug delivery and medical applications. It is made from refined crustacean (prawns, crabs, lobster) shells and...
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Novel 5-minute workout improves blood pressure, may boost brain function
by Lisa Marshall, University of Colorado at Boulder Could working out five minutes a day, without lifting a single weight or jogging a single step, reduce your heart attack risk, help you think more clearly and boost your sports performance? Preliminary results from a clinical trial of Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST), presented this week at the Experimental...
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Lung disease bronchiectasis associated with high frequency of allergy
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that patients with the lung disease bronchiectasis also often display sensitivity to airborne allergens, and has highlighted the particular role that fungi appear to play. Their discovery suggests that doctors should examine bronchiectasis patients for a range of allergies, since the treatment for allergies...
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Non-invasive imaging technique valid for identifying small airway disease in lung
Discovery holds promise for developing urgently needed new therapies in COPD MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory disease of the small airways in the lungs, affects 16 million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Identifying small airway disease in its earliest stages, when it...
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Activated PMN exosomes are pathogenic entities that cause destruction in the COPD lung
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have found a novel, previously unreported pathogenic entity that is a fundamental link between chronic inflammation and tissue destruction in the lungs of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. COPD is the fourth-leading cause of death in the world. Credit: CC0 Public Domain This pathogenic entity—exosomes from...