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    The lung cancer death rate among women appears to be declining for the first time in 40 years, according to an annual report published by multiple institutions. Findings from the report were recently released in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. A report on the status of cancer is published each year by the National news.cancerconnect.com


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    "Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop," the Daily Mail has today reported.
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    Oncogenic role of EAPII in lung cancer development and its activation of the MAPK–ERK pathway

    Oncogene 30, 3802 (1 September 2011). doi:10.1038/onc.2011.94

    Authors: C Li, S Fan, T K Owonikoko, F R Khuri, S-Y Sun & R Li

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    Frequent homozygous deletion of the LKB1/STK11 gene in non-small cell lung cancer

    Oncogene 30, 3784 (1 September 2011). doi:10.1038/onc.2011.98

    Authors: R K Gill, S-H Yang, D Meerzaman, L E Mechanic, E D Bowman, H-S Jeon, S Roy Chowdhuri, A Shakoori, T Dracheva, K-M Hong, J Fukuoka, J-H Zhang, C C Harris & J Jen

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    In a major triumph for personalized medicine, the FDA approved the drug crizotinib for use with the lung cancer type known as ALK-positive. "I know the names and I can see the faces of every ALK-positive patient I have treated with crizotinib.
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