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• Smokeless Tobacco Products Do Raise Cancer Risk (HealthDay)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Smokeless tobacco products (STPs), which include products such as snuff and chew tobacco, do increase the user's risk of cancer -- just not as much as smoking does.
  

• Circulating Tumor Cells Reveal Insights Into Lung Cancers (HealthDay)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new technique for finding and analyzing stray cancer cells in the blood of lung cancer patients may make it possible for doctors to one day not only determine the genetic "signature" of particular tumors but to monitor changes in those cells and adjust treatments accordingly.
  

• Doctors extract cancer cells from blood sample (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 5:33 pm
  Reuters - An experimental process that snags lung cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported on Wednesday.
  

• Tumor-starving pill helps thyroid cancer: study (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 5:07 pm
  Reuters - Amgen's once-a-day pill to starve tumors can help many patients with hard-to-treat thyroid cancer, either by shrinking tumors or slowing their growth, researchers reported on Wednesday.
  

• Biomarkers needed to gauge passive smoke exposure (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 2:48 pm
  Reuters - Biological indicators, or "biomarkers" of exposure to secondhand smoke that can be analyzed in blood, tissue or other samples, or through imaging scans are needed to examine whether exposure to secondhand smoke may cause lung cancer.
  

• Smoke-Free Policies Prove Effective (HealthDay)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Smoke-free policies are extremely effective at reducing smoking rates, exposure to secondhand smoke, and even smoking-related heart disease, new research shows.
  

• Study shows how broccoli fights cancer (Reuters)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 8:23 pm
  Reuters - Just a few more portions of broccoli each week may protect men from prostate cancer, British researchers reported on Wednesday.
  

• Smokeless tobacco linked to cancer risk, but safer than smoking (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 7:12 pm
  AFP - Oral and nasal snuff and chewing tobacco increase the risk of certain types of cancer but are probably safer than smoking, according to a review published on Wednesday in the journal Lancet Oncology.
  

• Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent: WHO (Reuters)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 6:39 pm
  Reuters - Chewing tobacco and snuff are less dangerous than cigarettes but the smokeless products still raise the risk of oral cancer by 80 percent, the World Health Organisation's cancer agency said on Tuesday.
  

• Cells in blood may help cancers spread (Reuters)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 4:24 pm
  Reuters - Normal cells in the blood that play a role in healing wounds may also be creating the right conditions for cancer cells to spread, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.