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Social Factors May Affect Survival In Lung Cancer Patients
African Americans are more likely to develop and die from cancer than people of any other racial and
ethnic group. A new study suggests that socioeconomic status and other social circumstances are likely to be responsible for
decreased physical health at the time of diagnosis among African American patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. more
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Computed Tomography Detects Lung Cancer At Earliest Stage
In a study that screened 1,520 individuals age 50 and over at high risk for lung cancer, low-dose
computed tomography detected 23 cases alone while sputum cytology analysis detected two alone, according to Mayo Clinic
investigators. (Lung cancer is the most common fatal malignancy among adults in the U.S.) more
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Viral Proteins May Be Associated With Human Brain Tumors
An association between a common virus and brain tumors has been established by a group of
researchers from Temple University, suggesting a possible role for it in the development of the most frequent type of malignant
brain tumor in children. more
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Information For Patients: What You Need To Know About Brain Tumors
Each year more than 17,000 people in the United States find out they have a brain tumor. The National
Cancer Institute (NCI) has written this booklet to help patients and their families and friends better understand brain tumors. We
at Vidyya also hope others will read it to learn more about these tumors. more
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Patches For A Broken Heart
One day, perhaps, biomedical engineers will simply grow new hearts for people who need them, using
cells taken from the patients themselves as seeds. Such hearts would be young, alive, and welcomed by the immune systems of
their recipients. It's a far-off goal, but some researchers are already making progress. Among them are MIT scientists Lisa E.
Freed and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. The pair have used a NASA-designed device called "the bioreactor" to grow tiny
patches of heart tissue -- patches that beat much like a healthy human heart. more
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