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lung cancer
Sheila Kaye had been smoking for years when they
found the tumor in her lung. As a long-time smoker, her lungs were in such bad shape that the diagnosis became
inoperable
lung cancer. The only remedy the doctor could try was cryosurgery, a procedure that freezes a tumor. With a special
probe, the tumor is brought down to -190°C, and within three to six months it disintegrates. BBC News has the
feature on Kaye's
lung cancer recovery here.
In
other
lung cancer news, Vanderbilt University in Nashville researchers have discovered a protein that might be a
significant key to the development of almost 75 percent of non-small cell
lung cancer, the most common form of lung
cancer. In studying the
lung cancer tissue of 46
lung cancer patients, they found the protein barely present or missing
altogether in 77 percent of the samples. Using mice, they found when they restored the protein, tumor growth slowed. The
key proteins are called type 2 receptors for Transforming Growth Factor-b, or TGF-b.
