Researchers at MIT seeking answers Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that acidic environments enable tumor cells to strengthen through protein production. When acidic surfaces extend beyond a tumor’s interior, and come into contact with healthy tissue, cancer can spread. Those…
A projection of the future health and economic burden of obesity in 2030 estimated that continuation of existing trends in obesity will lead to about 500,000 additional cases (nearly a 15-fold increase) of cancer in the U.S. by 2030.1 For example, one study that used NCI…
This article appeared Aug. 13 in the online edition of ADVANCE. Resources Andrede, RS Evaluation of mediastinal lymph nodes with endobronchial ultrasound: The thoracic surgery prospective, Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, March 2010: 139, 578-583. Block, MI Transition from mediastinoscopy to endoscopic ultrasound for lung cancer…
Bill (not his real name), a 30-year-old attorney and golfer, was on the eighth tee about to pull out his No. 2 iron when he started to cough up small amounts of blood and began to complain about pain in his chest and shortness…