FDA Launches New Center for Tobacco Products

Aug 24th of 2009

General Lung Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched its new Center for Tobacco Products in an historic effort to curb the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by those products each year.

FDA and Public Health Experts Warn About Electronic Cigarettes

Jul 23rd of 2009

Diseases Lung Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that a laboratory analysis of electronic cigarette samples has found that they contain carcinogens and toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, an ingredient used in antifreeze.

FDA Approves First Maintenance Drug Therapy for Advanced Lung Cancer

Jul 6th of 2009

Drugs Lung Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alimta (pemetrexed), the first drug available for maintenance therapy of advanced or metastatic lung cancer.

Early Detection Study for Non-Smokers Lung Cancer Launched

May 4th of 2009

Research Lung Cancer

Government and private sector cancer scientists today launched a research partnership to find biomarkers for lung cancer that develops in people who have never smoked. The research studies are designed to create a better understanding of the biology of lung cancer and to develop a test to detect early-stage lung cancer in lifetime nonsmokers. The Canary Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research in early cancer detection, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the Nati...