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An updated and expanded edition of a highly lauded plan for preventing and fighting cancer through a macrobiotic natural-foods diet offers new cases, updates on the disease, inspirational advice, and delicious new recipes…. More >>
One in five people with lung cancer have small cell lung cancer and only three per cent of these people are expected to survive for five years. With this form of lung cancer, tumours spread quickly so it is rarely possible to remove the tumours surgically. Because of this, small cell lung cancer is treated with chemotherapy, with or without additional radiotherapy. Initially, the treatment often appears to work, reducing the size of the tumours. However, the tumours usually grow back rapidly and then become resistant to further treatment.
The researchers behind today’s study have identified a drug that, in some mice, was able to completely shrink tumours away. In the mouse models, it was also able to stop tumours from growing and it helped other forms of chemotherapy to work more effectively. If the drug proves successful in humans, the researchers hope that it could help patients with this kind of lung cancer to live longer.
» Read more: Drug Shrinks Lung Cancer Tumors In Mice
Winning the war on cancer? Disease rates in U.S. drop below where they were in 1970s
It’s too soon to declare a victory, but it appears that the U.S. may be winning the battle with cancer.
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