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Smoking may interfere with alcoholics' neurocognitive recovery
Alcoholics frequently smoke. Anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of individuals in North America who seek alcoholism therapy are also chronic smokers. New findings indicate that smoking may interfere with alcoholics neurocognitive recovery during their first six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol........New Cigarettes Designs Don't Offer Lower Cancer Risks
The tobacco company's description of its new cigarette brand seems to promise a lot. "May present less risk of cancer linked to smoking, " the company boasts on its Web site, making it a natural choice "for smokers who have decided not to quit, but who are interested in a cigarette that responds to concerns about certain smoking-related illnesses, including cancer." Another tobacco firm, in a print ad for the brand, has crowed "All of the taste. Less of the toxins"........Cause of Smokers' Cravings
Video of Jed Rose explaining the regions of the brain that control craving is available in the following formats: RealMedia, QuickTime and Windows Media Video. DURHAM, N.C. -- Within the mind of every smoker trying to quit rages a battle between the higher-order functions of the brain wanting to break the habit and the lower-order functions screaming for another cigarette, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center. More often than not, that cigarette gets lit........Lung Cancer-derived EGFR Mutants
A new study sheds light on how some small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including two that are currently being used clinically to treat cancer, interact with wild-type and mutated forms of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The research, reported in the recent issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, may help to guide rational use of currently available EGFR inhibitors and provides new direction for the design and development of even more potent inhibitors that are tailored to specific EGFR mutants........New Lung Cancer Therapy With Fewer Radiation Treatments
You probably have not to take that prolonged therapy with radiation treatment. Now there is a new cancer therapy that cuts down the amount of radiation a patient must endure. This new therapy method would cut 35 therapys of radiation to five therapys. This new technique is called sterotactic body radiotherapy........Successful Lung Cancer Surgery Not Enough
We would believe that once someone is diagnosed with lung cancer and undergoes a surgery, which involves removal of part or the whole of lung would motivate that person to quit smoking. But that may not be correct. A new study has observed that close to half of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, and more than one-third were smoking at the one year mark. Sixty percent of patients who started smoking again did so within two months of surgery........Exercise may reduce lung cancer risk
Good news for women who do regular exercise! Even if you smoke your may reduce your chance of developing lung cancer by doing regular exercise. This new study shows that regular exercise may cut down the risk of lung cancer. But this comes with a warning. The researchers caution that any relative benefit is dwarfed by the benefits gained from kicking the habit........
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