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New Study Suggests Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer by Chelsea Green Patient Expert

Posted Fri 28 Aug 2009 5:55pm

1 Comment In study after study, the causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer has been firmly established. Less so with marijuana. Smoking marijuana does damage cells in the lungs and airways—however, the damaged cells die rather than reproduce. They fail to become malignant. In a 2005 study at UCLA, Professor Donald Tashkin’s research Read on »

Green tea reduces lung cancer risk in smokers and non-smokers by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 12 Jan 2010 12:00am at the 2010 AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer. “Lung cancer is the leading cause of all cancer deaths in Taiwan,” said I-Hsin Lin, M.S., a student... with cancer risk. Among smokers and non-smokers, those who did not drink green tea had a 5.16-fold increased risk of lung cancer compared with those who drank at least one cup Read on »

Asthma Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Study by HealthFinder Posted Wed 03 Nov 2010 10:00am with the findings, noting that while asthma and COPD scar the lungs, lung cancer is not caused by scarring of lung tissue. Also, she said it doesn't appear that the researchers took into account smoking, which is a major cause of lung cancer. "This is not going to change how we take care of people, or [cause us] to screen asthmatics for lung cancer," she said Read on »

Asthma Linked to Lung Cancer Risk in Study by Medline Plus Posted Wed 03 Nov 2010 9:00am and COPD scar the lungs, lung cancer is not caused by scarring of lung tissue. Also, she said it doesn't appear that the researchers took into account smoking, which is a major cause of lung cancer. "This is not going to change how we take care of people, or [cause us] to screen asthmatics for lung cancer," she said. SOURCES: Marilyn Glassberg, M.D. Read on »

Beans and soya cuts the risk of lung cancer by Peter C. Complimentary & Alternative Medicine

Posted Thu 23 Oct 2008 6:33pm Beans and soya cuts the risk of lung cancer. Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center compared the diets of 1,674 lung cancer patients and 1,735 people of similar ages and sex who did not have cancer and found that eating beans and soya appear to reduce lung cancer risk by as much as 46%. The protective effect is thought Read on »

Test May Determine Smokers’ Lung Cancer Risk by COPDsurvivor Patient Expert

Posted Thu 23 Apr 2009 5:25pm that for genetic reasons, some people produce more NNAL than others, thereby increasing their risk of lung cancer. Researchers say this test is no license to smoke; tobacco causes other... a particular chemical in their urine that’s been linked to lung cancer. The risk of lung cancer was 8.5 times higher in those who had the highest levels of this chemical, NNAL Read on »

Occupation a key factor in men’s lung cancer risk by COPDsurvivor Patient Expert

Posted Tue 16 Feb 2010 6:57am Men who work in certain occupations continue to be at increased risk of lung cancernew research from Italy shows In factabout 5 percent of lung cancers in men are job-relatedDario Consonni of the IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan and associates found. While cigarettes are by far the most important cause of lung cancerchemicals and other Read on »

Vitamin B6 May Lower Risk of Lung Cancer by Dirk H. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 20 Jun 2010 9:49am , the international research team found that “people with vitamin B6 levels ranking in the top one-fourth of all the samples taken had less than half the risk of lung cancer as those... folate levels seemed to give less protection.” The researchers calculated that having high levels of all three compounds could reduce lung cancer risk by as much as two-thirds Read on »

Vitamin B6, methionine level linked to 50 percent lower lung cancer risk by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 17 Jun 2010 12:00am that those with higher blood levels of vitamin B6 and the essential amino acid methionine (found in most protein) had an associated lower lung cancer risk, including participants who... for various factors, the researchers found a lower risk for lung cancer among participants with increasing levels of B6 (comparing the fourth vs. first quartile of B6 levels). A lower Read on »

Red wine lowers lung cancer risk by 60 percent by Dr. John Z. Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 07 Oct 2008 6:13pm AACR.org - Moderate consumption of red wine may lower the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report in the October 2008 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention¸ a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “An antioxidant component in red wine may be protective of lung cancer, particularly among smokers,” said [...] Read on »