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    Lung cancer is strongly related to smoking. Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemicals, of which 43 are carcinogenic (cancer-causing). These carcinogenic compounds include carbon monoxide, tar, nicotine, arsenic, formaldehyde, etc.
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    The invasive and costly procedure of inserting an inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) does not benefit cancer patients who are being treated with the anticoagulation medication fondaparinux (Arixtra®) for blood clots. These results were recently presented at the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer. Blood clots are the second most common cause of death among cancer news.cancerconnect.com


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    For elderly patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), treatment with a combination of two chemotherapy drugs results in better overall survival than treatment with single-agent chemotherapy. The results of this Phase III clinical trial were published in The Lancet. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Non–small cell news.cancerconnect.com


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    The targeted agent Tarceva® (erlotinib) nearly doubles progression-free survival compared with chemotherapy when used as initial treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer that contains an EGFR gene mutation. These results were recently presented at the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer. As cancer research has evolved, it’s become apparent that the specific characteristics of a news.cancerconnect.com


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    August 8, reported that people know that "smoking is harmful." And studies have shown thatsmokers smoke the morning after getting up early one hour after smoking than smokers a higher risk of cancer. "Cancer" journals recently published the article shows,people get up in the heavy smoker to smoke more than that, these people are more vulnerable to nicotine’s control, and the cancer rate is nearly two other smokers times. Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine physicians have been expected to understand why many smokers, only some will get cancer. So they were examined lung cancer and head and neck cancer patients, doctors in the study of cigarette smokers the first day if the time and the time they woke up the relationship between the discovery, in thewake up 30 minutes to 1 hour smokers risk of lung cancer is 1 hour after smoking one of1.31 times, and wake up on the smokers (30 minutes) is its 1.79-fold. Head and neck cancer patients as well, 1,055 patients, 795 cases were smokers. And wake up on smokerssuffering head and neck cancer is likely to wake up 1 hour after smoking were 1.59 times more. Therefore, the results showed that: a wake up smoking does increase the risk of cancer. Professor Robert West from Cancer Research UK , said: "morning-smokers who are oftensmokers, older people and they will consume more nicotine, it will be more smoke inhaled into the lungs, the cancer may therefore be likely even higher. " ——- DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26235 Nicotine dependence phenotype, time to first cigarette, and risk of head and neck cancer Joshua E. Muscat PhD Kwangmi Ahn PhD John P. Richie Jr PhD Steven D. Stellman PhD   Abstract BACKGROUND: A behavioral phenotype that characterizes nicotine dependence, the time to first cigarette after waking, is hypothesized to increase the risk of head and neck cancer. METHODS: A case-control study of histologically confirmed head and neck cancer was conducted that included 1055 cases and 795 controls with a history of cigarette smoking. RESULTS: The pack-years–adjusted odds ratio was 1.42 (95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.02-1.99) for an interval of 31 minutes to 60 minutes to first cigarette after waking and 1.59 (95% CI, 1.19-2.11) for an interval of 1 minute to 30 minutes. The risk estimates were similar when smoking was modeled as total years, smoking status (current vs former), number of cigarettes smoked per day, years since quitting, and excess odds ratio. Findings were consistent for cancers of the floor of the mouth, palate, and pharynx. CONCLUSIONS: Time to first cigarette is an indicator of increased nicotine dependence, smoke uptake, and risk of head and neck cancer. This high-risk group of individuals would benefit from targeted smoking interventions. Cancer 2011;. © 2011 American Cancer Society. Incoming search terms for the article:Nicotine dependence phenotype time to first cigarette www.2n2u.com


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