If everyone eligible had a lung cancer screening, 62,000 lives would be saved over five years, a new study shows. By Simar Bajaj Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if more people got screened ...

Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and ...

Cancer Center at Illinois researchers are leading a multi-institutional partnership to improve minimally invasive imaging technology for lung cancer treatment. The implications of this new technology ...

A new study from Northwestern Medicine suggests that current lung cancer screening guidelines may be missing most Americans who develop the disease — and researchers say it’s time for a major change.

Endurance athlete Kevin Humphrey was used to discomfort. He regularly participated in ultramarathons and other intense events. Swimming, biking and running dozens of miles at a time was standard for ...

Lung cancer in never-smokers exhibits distinct biological characteristics, often leading to late-stage diagnoses due to lack of screening. Targeted therapies, guided by molecular testing, offer ...

In 2024, Kara Goodwin started feeling a pain in her arm and shoulder that wouldn’t go away. She was diagnosed with bicep tendinitis and frozen shoulder. Doctors thought the resident of Brooklyn, New ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with a low-dose CT scan between June 2000 and December 2008 were followed for a median of 23.3 years.

Just a few months after Boehringer Ingelheim broke into the oncology space with the first drug that can target a rare tumor type in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the FDA has given ...

Scientists used CRISPR to disable the NRF2 gene, restoring chemotherapy sensitivity in lung cancer cells and slowing tumor growth. The technique worked even when only a fraction of tumor cells were ...

Men with the most common form of lung cancer seem to be uniquely susceptible to losing the Y chromosome from their cells, which could have advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it shields ...

A team of scientists at the Institute for Cell Biology (Cancer Research), University of Duisburg-Essen, has developed a simple method for the automated manufacture of induced pluripotent stem cell ...