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Long-term survival rates for patients with advanced prostate cancer suggest they can be good candidates for surgery, researchers have found.

Researchers have found that patients with node negative T3 and T4 non-small lung cancer who underwent chemotherapy before surgery had more than three times the survival rate than patients who only underwent surgery.

(Boston University Medical Center) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have found that patients with node negative T3 and T4 non-small lung cancer who underwent chemotherapy before surgery had more than three times the survival rate than patients who only underwent surgery.

A new study that looks at newly diagnosed lung cancer patients and follows them from diagnosis forward is one of the first to give reasons why patients don't go to lung surgery and why surgery happens less often in blacks.

(Mayo Clinic) Long-term survival rates for patients with advanced prostate cancer suggest they can be good candidates for surgery, Mayo Clinic researchers have found.

(American Society of Clinical Oncology) Summary of study being published online Aug. 29, 2011, in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finding that using MRI prior to surgery to gauge the effectiveness of pre-surgery treatment for advanced rectal cancer correlates with both overall and disease-free survival

Patients with early stage, non-small cell lung cancer who are not able to undergo surgery, now have a highly effective treatment option. Physicians say that option, radical stereotactic radiosurgery performed with CyberKnife, leads to a 100 percent overall survival after three years in patients with good lung function before treatment.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research published in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found that an individual's quality of life prior to treatment can help predict the overall survival of patients with advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) Research published in February's edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology investigates the utilization of surgery and the subsequent need for radiotherapy when treating stage I small cell lung cancer. Traditionally, SCLC treatment regimes include chemotherapy and radiotherapy for limited stage disease; however, the study concludes that in selected patients with early stage disease a lobectomy (removal of lung) had an excellent overall survival without additional treatment.