Two of the world's richest philanthropists, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg pledged on Wednesday to spend 500 million dollars to make people all over the world stop smoking. They announced the news together at a press conference at the TheTimesCenter in Midtown Manhattan. Michael Bloomberg is mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP, a giant financial software services, news and data company.
Researchers from four leading cancer centers have confirmed that an analysis involving a panel of genes can be used to predict which lung cancer patients will have the worst survival. The finding could one day lead to a test that would help determine who needs more aggressive treatment. The study, the largest of its kind, appears online in Nature Medicine.
BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("BioNumerik") announced that patients with adenocarcinoma (the most frequently occurring form of lung cancer) participating in a Phase II clinical trial of Tavocept(TM) showed a survival increase of approximately 198 days (6.5 months). The trial observations included an approximate 40% reduction in mortality for adenocarcinoma patients receiving Tavocept.
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