NIH Funds Investigation of Inhaled Lung Cancer Treatment
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
Just as inhaling cigarette smoke can cause lung cancer, inhaling medication may treat it. Two researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to clinically develop an inhaled therapy for lung cancer - to be used before the cancer becomes malignant and spreads.