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Doctors at Community Cancer Center Treat Inoperable Lung Cancer Using TrueBeam System for ...
2014-06-02 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Newly installed technology enables clinicians to target lung and other tumors quickly and precisely using finely shaped radiation beams rather than surgery<br /> <br /> NORMAL, Ill. — When a diagnostic chest X-ray revealed a nodule on his left lung, Paul Hoffman, 79, had a biopsy and soon got bad news: it was Stage 1 lung cancer. He was given two options. The first was surgery, which would have been risky because Hoffman has a heart condition and a pacemaker. The second option was ...This story is related to the following:Radiotherapy Systems
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UNECE: claim that diesel on-road vehicles are the cause of increased lung cancer is misleading
2014-05-23 12:30:42| Green Car Congress
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Improved Lung Lesion Scoring System for Pigs
2014-05-06 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GERMANY - Researchers in Hanover have developed an improved method for scoring lung lesions in pigs under commercial slaughterhouse conditions.
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UPDATE 1-Vertex says cystic fibrosis drugs shown to boost lung function
2014-05-02 07:49:57| Biotech - Topix.net
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc on Thursday said a combination of its cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco and an experimental compound was shown to improve lung function in a mid-stage trial, sending its shares up nearly 8 percent.
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Obama admin tightens coal dust rules to reduce black lung cases
2014-04-23 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Obama administration said Wednesday it is cutting the amount of coal dust allowed in coal mines in an effort to help reduce black lung disease. "Today we advance a very basic principle: you shouldn't have to sacrifice your life for your livelihood," Labor Secretary Thomas E Perez said. "But that's been the fate of more than 76,000 miners who have died at least in part because of black lung since 1968." Perez was one of several top government officials to announce the long-awaited final...
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