Lung Cancer news

Faster Tracking of Lung Tumors May Help Treatment

Today, at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Philadelphia, a…    

New lung cancer drug shows dramatic results for shrinking tumors

Patients with a specific kind of lung cancer may benefit from a Phase III clinical trial offered by…    

Nutrients may be why some smokers avoid cancer

Smokers who have higher levels of vitamin B6 and certain essential proteins in their blood have a lower…    

Study Helps Explain Why Black Patients with Lung Cancer Have Surgery Less Often than Whites

A new study led by UNC researchers that looks at newly diagnosed lung cancer patients and follows them…    

Lung cancer research concludes that early diagnosis as key for improving survival

Research published in the June edition of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology sought to investigate the time trends…    

Drug fights tumors in advanced lung cancer

A drug being developed by Pfizer Inc shrank lung cancer tumors in more than half of treated patients,…    

Inhaled drug may prevent lung cancer: study

A drug approved to treat a range of conditions may also work to prevent lung cancer in people…    

Lung cancer screening often yields false positives

Imaging tests used to screen symptom-free people for lung cancer often find suspicious growths that turn out to…    

BATTLE Links Potential Biomarkers to Drugs for Lung Cancer

The first lung cancer clinical trial to guide targeted therapies to patients based on molecular signatures in…    

BATTLE Trial Personalizes Lung Cancer Therapy

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in men and women, but huge randomized…    

Promising Strategy for Treatment of Lung Cancer

A research team at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has shown in a study…    

Gene found that may predict lung cancer in smokers

Researchers have identified a group of genes that are especially active in lung cancer patients - even in…    

Gene is Linked to Lung Cancer Development in Never Smokers

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of “never smokers” diagnosed with lung cancer…    

New radiation therapy could help in lung cancer

Aiming powerful beams of radiation precisely at tumors helped control their growth and helped people with early stage…    

High-fiber diet linked to lower lung disease risk

People who get enough fiber in their diets, particularly from whole grains, may have a lower risk of…    

Smoking tied to lung cancer in women with HIV

Women infected with HIV or at risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, appear…    

Hormone replacement tied to lung cancer risk

Women who use hormone replacement therapy combining estrogen and progestin may have a higher risk of lung cancer…    

Survey finds significant racial differences in lung cancer beliefs

A new survey finds that while both whites and African Americans know and think little about lung cancer,…    

African-Americans’ Attitudes About Lung Cancer May Hinder Prevention

A new survey has found that African-Americans are more likely than whites to hold mistaken and fatalistic beliefs…    

Lung Cancer: Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Elderly

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States for both men and women.…