Sentence examples for minority of lung from inspiring English sources

An increase of TUNEL positive cells was observed only in a minority of lung cancer specimens.

Only a minority of lung cancer patients follow the traditional route to diagnosis.

While only a minority of lung cancer patients in the 1950s could expect to be cured, and there was little hope of long-term survival for the majority, there was also no general notion that lung cancer would remain incurable.

18 The large majority of the relevant healthcare providers in South East England are part of a national tax-funded health system, with only a minority of lung cancer patients being managed by private providers.

In a minority of lung cancer cases, computed tomography evidence of advanced disease and/or poor respiratory reserve meant histological confirmation was not possible in 5% of cases and spirometry was not performed in 7% of cases.

With the advent of improved methods of DNA sequencing, it was demonstrated that BRAF is frequently mutated in melanoma (27 to 70%), papillary thyroid cancer (36 to 53%), colorectal cancer (5 to 22%), cholangiocarcinoma (22%), ovarian cancer (30%), and a small minority of lung cancer patients (1-31-3% 70- 75].

The recent results with gefitinib in lung cancer patients with mutations in the EGFR gene are striking but only a minority of the lung cancer population may have this mutation (Lynch et al, 2004; Paez et al, 2004).

It is concluded that high circulating ACTH immunoactivity occurs in a minority of patients with lung cancer, particularly those with extensive small-cell carcinoma.

Individuals eligible for screening account for a minority of those diagnosed with lung cancer in the US; the evidence needed to improve patient selection must be collected systematically for both screen-detected and incidentally detected lung nodules.

Yet few studies have investigated functional alterations in response to bleomycin in mice [ 9, 33- 35] and only a small minority of bleomycin studies report lung function results, possibly due to the required technical expertise and cost.

Similarly, the dramatic clinical histories of a minority of PJS patients include lung cancer, but not at such a high rate as to suggest the prevalence of LKB1 alteration in this tumour (Hirano et al, 2002; Estrada Trigueros et al, 2005; von Herbay et al, 2005).