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 ...

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, ...

Senescent fibroblasts are aging cells that no longer divide and protect against tumor development. Yet two decades have gone ...

For decades, lung cancer has been associated with stigma, anxiety, and loss. Advances in screening, therapeutics, and survivorship have created a new reality; lung cancer is treatable, survivable, and ...

Lung cancer remains the world’s deadliest cancer, and cigarette smoke is its chief culprit. Chemicals in tobacco, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), damage DNA and trigger the mutations ...

Talk about a breath of fresh air. Researchers have developed a groundbreaking device that may one day make detecting lung cancer as easy as exhaling. “We built a screening tool that could allow ...

A 46-year-old man with advanced lung cancer recovered after doctors used Next Generation Sequencing to identify a rare ALK ...

Lung cancer screening might be the best-kept secret in health care today. Only about 16 percent of those who are eligible in the U.S. get screened for lung cancer, but a study coming out in NEJM ...