lung cancer

They were given the dreaded diagnosis of lung cancer. They knew smoking may have caused it. Yet five months later, more than a third were still puffing away.

(The Translational Genomics Research Institute) Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute have begun to identify mutations and cellular pathway changes that lead to lung cancer in never-smokers -- a first step in developing potential therapeutic targets.

The widow of a city cop killed by lung cancer after two months of toxic post-9/11 duty won a bitter four-year fight Tuesday to collect enhanced line-of-duty death benefits.

A new approach to treating cancer appears to help certain patients with advanced lung cancer, and researchers say they think they may have a way of spotting those who will benefit.

(Brown University) Lab experiments find that nickel particles with diameters billionths of a meter wide can trigger a cellular pathway that promotes cancer growth.

(International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer) A relatively simple and inexpensive method may be used to determine whether a lung cancer patient is a candidate for crizotinib therapy, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official monthly journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A major challenge for cancer biologists is figuring out which among the hundreds of genetic mutations found in a cancer cell are most important for driving the cancer's spread.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Celecoxib may emerge as a potent chemopreventive agent for lung cancer, according to a recent study in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer with low-dose CT imaging saves lives, a huge, decade-long study shows, but experts say it is too soon to recommend screening for everyone at risk.

(MedPage Today) -- Nationally, deaths from cancer are continuing to decline -- but the big news in this year's report from the American Cancer Society was the first decline in lung cancer deaths in women in recorded history, falling 0.9% annually from 2003 through 2007.