The latest thoracic oncology news
How Australians Die: cause #2 – cancers
By Terry Slevin, Cancer Council Australia and Andrew Redfern, University of Western Australia. Described as…
Browsing: Lung Cancer
GFC linked to over 260,000 additional cancer deaths
Unemployment and reduced public-sector health spending following the 2008 global economic crisis were associated with…
Immunotherapy shows great promise
Stanley Riddell, M.D., oncologist and researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses the…
UK Post-mortem cancer study goes national
Cancer Research UK has today announced a £4 million ($7.8 million AUD) investment to expand…
How does robotic video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery compare to VATS for treating lung cancer?
A new study shows that robotic video-assisted lung resection to remove a tumour achieves comparable…
Exposure to particulate air pollutants associated with numerous cancers
Researchers have found that long-term exposure to environmental pollutants was associated with increased risk of…
AACR 2016: New RAF-targeted therapeutic shows early promise against tumours with BRAF and RAS mutations
The new investigational anticancer therapeutic BGB-283, which targets the RAF family of proteins, was safe,…
‘Liquid biopsy’ blood test detects genetic mutations in common form of lung cancer
A simple blood test can rapidly and accurately detect mutations in two key genes in…
Researchers discover ‘Holy Grail’ of cancer treatment
By Caleb Radford – The Lead SA. Researchers are developing nanotech “smart packages” to target and…
Weekly dose: Taxol, the anticancer drug discovered in the bark of a tree
By Nial Wheate, University of Sydney. Taxol is a chemotherapy drug used in the treatment of…