While smoking remains the leading risk factor, other contributors include secondhand smoke, air pollution, radon exposure and ...

Dr. Brian S. Henick, a medical oncologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and director of the phase 1 program and translational research in aerodigestive cancers, outlined in an interview ...

There was encouraging news last week, that, at long last, deaths related to lung cancer are going down significantly. However, in this week's Moves in Medicine, we look at the new challenge: Why are ...

Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease's development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health's Beirne ...

A stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 led to extensive treatments, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation, and clinical trials. A double lung transplant initially removed cancer, ...

The researchers found higher ATF4 levels in tumors from older subjects, both in mice and in human patients. Elevated ATF4 was also linked to a greater chance of cancer returning after lung surgery and ...

HER2-mutated non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a rare form of lung cancer where the cancer cells have a mutation that makes them grow and divide in an uncontrolled way. You can best understand ...

A severe case of COVID-19 or influenza could increase the risk of lung cancer later on, according to new research. Scientists discovered that serious viral infections can alter immune cells in the ...

A Brooklyn doctor warns that a modest transformation in fingernails could indicate lung cancer. Dr. Davood Johari, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, told ...