01 May 2009

Men on, lung cancer kill more


Men more at risk of death due to lung cancer than women. According to research, gender is a factor that most affect the resistance against a disease.


The research team the United States to study in six different cities in the U.S. involving 1,365 patients to determine the influence of gender, race, marital status and level of illness of lung cancer. The result is known that men have a mortality risk 1.23 times higher than in women.

Dr. Movnsas Benjamin, head of the Department of radiation Oncology Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit Our leading the study stated in a speech this study reinforce the fact that gender plays an important role as factors of the prognosis of the diagnosed suffering from lung cancer.

This study proves that the use of two target therapy (bevacizumab and cetuximab) combined with chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) in the early treatment can give satisfactory results in the diagnosis of 104 patients suffering from lung cancer between August 2006 to September 2007.

Combination therapy is most likely soon will be the treatment options for healing disease lung cancer, said Dr. Edward Kim

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