Stem cell hope
First Trachea Transplant From Stem Cells
Miranda Hitti
November 19, 2008 — Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea transplant that hinges on the patient’s own stem cells.
The operation, done in June at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, was successful and is detailed in today’s online edition of The Lancet.
The patient was a 30-year-old woman whose left airway collapsed as a result of tuberculosis. She’d already had a stent implanted to reopen that airway, but that didn’t work out and the stent had been removed.
Doctors got a trachea from an organ donor and stripped the donated trachea of cells that would have been rejected when transplanted into another person.
read on http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/583868?sssdmh=dm1.405964&src=nldne
BBC NEWS explains technique – good video included… follow link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7735696.stm
Filed under update information | Comment (1)Genetic link?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 28 – A cluster of gene variants on chromosome 15 associated with lung cancer risk also appear to affect risk for nicotine dependence, epidemiologists at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report.
Three independent genome-wide association studies previously identified single nucleotide polymorphisms strongly associated with risk of lung cancer, Dr. Margaret R. Spitz and colleagues explain in the November 5 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Read on http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/582718?sssdmh=dm1.399093&src=nldne
Filed under update information | Comment (0)Image from http://medicineworld.org/
US Resource Centre
USA stats reveal -
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women; more people die from lung cancer than from colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. In 2007, more than 200,000 people will develop lung cancer and more than 160,000 people will die from the disease. Incremental improvements are made regularly in the ways in which all treatment modalities (ie, surgery, radiation, and medical therapies) are applied to patients with lung cancer. Practitioners face a continuing challenge in staying on top of new data and recommendations based on recent advances in therapy. These advances include the incorporation of targeted therapies into traditional chemotherapy- and radiation-based regimens for lung cancer.
Breathlessness
Been looking in our library at the Community Cancer Centre and found this useful booklet for those with Lung Cancer. It is produced by the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. I have created a link for you in Charity Links. But the book you can read and print from this online link… http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1Q4874e95ce7e44012.cde
Gives a easy look at how the lungs work. The reasons for breathlessness. Loads of chapters on how to cope. We can look at the helpful hints and coping together in this blog – will find you more useful links and resources over the next few weeks.
Filed under Breathlessness | Comment (0)Welcome visitors!
This new blog site will be dedicated to the latest on Lung Cancer. So watch this space over the next weeks to fill you in on all sorts of ways to support your AIRWAY…
Love Marjorie
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