Although most lung cancers are a result of smoking, approximately 25% of lung cancer
cases worldwide are not attributable to tobacco use, accounting for over 300,000 deaths …

Cigarette smoking is reported in about one third of adults worldwide. A strong relationship
between cigarette smoke exposure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as …

Purpose Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Although smoking
remains the predominant cause of lung cancer, lung cancer in never smokers is an …

Lung cancer is predominantly associated with cigarette smoking; however, a substantial
minority of patients with the disease have never smoked. In the US it is estimated there are …

Drugs that target the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have had a major impact on
the treatment of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The use of these drugs has also …

Background Erlotinib is an oral, reversible inhibitor of the HER1/epidermal growth factor
receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase. A survival advantage for erlotinib compared with placebo …

Background We previously showed that Asian ethnicity was an independent favorable
prognostic factor in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Many Asian NSCLC patients were …

Although lung cancer remains the leading cancer killer in the United States, recently a
number of developments indicate future clinical benefit. These include evidence that …

Cigarette smoking is associated with a plethora of different diseases. Nicotine is the
addictive component of cigarette but also acts onto cells of the non-neuronal system …

The involvement of telomerase in cellular immortalization and senescence has often been
assessed by means of telomerase expression at the RNA level and quantification of …