
Important Target Playing Role In Tobacco-Related Lung Cancers Discovered By Researchers
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Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have discovered that the immune response regulator IKBKE (serine/threonine kinase) plays two roles in tobacco-related non-small cell lung cancers. Tobacco carcinogens induce IKBKE and, in turn, IKBKE induces chemotherapy resistance. The study was published in a recent issue of Oncogene...
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Risk Of Heart Attack And Early Death Increases With Cellular Aging
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Every cell in the body has chromosomes with so-called telomeres, which are shortened over time and also through lifestyle choices such as smoking and obesity. Researchers have long speculated that the shortening of telomeres increases the risk of heart attack and early death...
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Graft Rejection And Secondhand Smoke
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A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that cigarette smoke exposure, in a cause-effect manner, results in graft rejection that would have been prevented by certain drug treatments...
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Surgeon General Targets Youth Smoking
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Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin unleashed another salvo against tobacco, this time aiming to stop young people from starting to smoke, with the aim to have the next generation tobacco free...
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Passive Smoking In Childhood Increases Risk Of COPD In Adulthood
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A new study published in the journal Respirology reveals that children who are exposed to passive smoke have almost double the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood compared with non-exposed children...
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Extra Help For Smokers Trying To Quit
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A major research trial to test the effectiveness of extra support for smokers calling an NHS quitline - on top of what is already offered by the service - has found the additional help does not improve success rates for quitting the habit. The pilot scheme offered smokers additional help in the form of free nicotine patches and extra telephone counselling from the English National Quitline...
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Public Health Researchers Outline Obstacles Standing In The Way Of Cancer Prevention
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More than half of all cancer is preventable, and society has the knowledge to act on this information today, according to Washington University public health researchers at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis...
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Link Discovered Between Estrogen And Tobacco Smoke
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The hormone estrogen may help promote lung cancer - including compounding the effects of tobacco smoke on the disease - pointing towards potential new therapies that target the hormone metabolism, according to new research presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012 by scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia...
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