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Lung Cancer Screening Websites Tout Benefits, Often Don’t Mention Risks

Trained Dogs Can Identify Lung Cancer, Study Shows

Lung Cancer 101

Lung Cancer Screening Websites Tout Benefits, Often Don’t Mention Risks

Trained Dogs Can Identify Lung Cancer, Study Shows

Lung Cancer 101

Happy to Be Aging, Gracefully or Otherwise

I had to miss some cancer meds so I could have hernia surgery, but I’m healing nicely—and there’s other good news!

Mutations in Lung Cells Linked to Pack-Years of Smoking

People who never smoked were less likely to have cell mutations linked to lung cancer.

Distant tumor cells prompt perivascular cells (yellow) surrounding blood vessels (green) to undergo physical and behavioral changes (red) that promote tumor metastasis in mice.

Understanding Metastasized Cancer

Defining one of cancer’s most common and intimidating terms

A new KRAS drug binds to a hidden pocket in the mutant protein, inactivating it.

KRAS Inhibitor May Offer Long-Term Benefit for Lung Cancer Patients

Two-year follow-up showed that Lumakras prolonged treatment response and had a favorable safety profile.

Acknowledging the Fears of Cancer by Giving Them a Face and a Name

For a photographer living with cancer, addressing worries that accompany his diagnoses helps him remain someone who is not defined by them.

Lung Cancer Patients With a Genetic Variant Linked to Autoimmune Disease May Respond Better to Immunotherapy

People with a specific variant of the CTLA-4 gene had exceptionally good responses to PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors.

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When the Caregiver Becomes the Patient: Teresa’s Lung Cancer Story [SPONSORED]

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Can a Blood Test Predict Who Will Develop Lung Cancer?

Major Progress In Lung Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Facilitates Drop in Overall Cancer Mortality

Starting Treatment for Small Cell Lung Cancer? Hear From an Oncology Nurse and a Cancer Patient. [SPONSORED]

Quitting Smoking After Lung Cancer Diagnosis Improves Survival

A Better Treatment Approach for “Atypical” Lung Cancers

Should People With HIV Be Prioritized for Lung Cancer Screening?

A small Spanish study suggests that screening people living with HIV for lung cancer results in a high rate of diagnosis.

Can a Blood Test Predict Who Will Develop Lung Cancer?

Personalized risk assessment identified 9% more lung cancer cases for screening compared with current U.S. guidelines.

What’s Popping Up Now?

My latest CT scan results show that everything remains stable, and my lab results are looking great!

FDA Approves First Pre-Surgery Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer

Neoadjuvant Opdivo plus chemotherapy improved outcomes for people with operable non-small-cell lung cancer.

Antiracism Intervention Reduces Lung Cancer Surgery Wait Times

Black individuals were able to access surgery within 28 days of diagnosis, down from 43 days before the intervention.

Wood-burning Stoves Raise New Health Concerns

Officials increasingly treat woodsmoke pollution as a potentially cancer-causing public health and environmental justice issue.

People With Lung Cancer Coped With Pandemic Better Than People Without Cancer

Lung cancer patients had less depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic than their healthy counterparts.

Breast Cancer Now Leading Cause of Cancer Death in African American/Black Women

American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African American/Black People shows disparities in survival, stage at diagnosis and more.

Quitting Smoking After Lung Cancer Diagnosis Improves Survival

Providers who treat smokers with lung cancer should offer support to help them quit.

Two-Drug Immunotherapy Shows Benefit in Some Patients With Lung Cancer

Adding radiation therapy to Imfinzi and tremelimumab didn’t help those with non-small cell lung cancer, according to a new study.

#lung cancer

Lung Cancer Screening Websites Tout Benefits, Often Don’t Mention Risks

Trained Dogs Can Identify Lung Cancer, Study Shows

Lung Cancer 101

Lung Cancer Screening Websites Tout Benefits, Often Don’t Mention Risks

Trained Dogs Can Identify Lung Cancer, Study Shows

Lung Cancer 101

Happy to Be Aging, Gracefully or Otherwise

Mutations in Lung Cells Linked to Pack-Years of Smoking

Understanding Metastasized Cancer

KRAS Inhibitor May Offer Long-Term Benefit for Lung Cancer Patients

Acknowledging the Fears of Cancer by Giving Them a Face and a Name

Lung Cancer Patients With a Genetic Variant Linked to Autoimmune Disease May Respond Better to Immunotherapy

MUST read

When the Caregiver Becomes the Patient: Teresa’s Lung Cancer Story [SPONSORED]

Can a Blood Test Predict Who Will Develop Lung Cancer?

Major Progress In Lung Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Facilitates Drop in Overall Cancer Mortality

Starting Treatment for Small Cell Lung Cancer? Hear From an Oncology Nurse and a Cancer Patient. [SPONSORED]

Quitting Smoking After Lung Cancer Diagnosis Improves Survival

A Better Treatment Approach for “Atypical” Lung Cancers

Should People With HIV Be Prioritized for Lung Cancer Screening?

Can a Blood Test Predict Who Will Develop Lung Cancer?

What’s Popping Up Now?

FDA Approves First Pre-Surgery Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer

Antiracism Intervention Reduces Lung Cancer Surgery Wait Times

Wood-burning Stoves Raise New Health Concerns

People With Lung Cancer Coped With Pandemic Better Than People Without Cancer

Breast Cancer Now Leading Cause of Cancer Death in African American/Black Women

Quitting Smoking After Lung Cancer Diagnosis Improves Survival

Two-Drug Immunotherapy Shows Benefit in Some Patients With Lung Cancer

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