An assay which measures the activity of 14 genes in lung cancer tumors can accurately predict who will respond well to surgery and who will probably die within five years, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, reported in The Lancet…

Each year in the U.S., lung cancer kills more individuals than prostate, colon, and breast cancers combined. Often the disease goes undetected until it has reached an advanced and more difficult-to-treat stage. At present the only method to detect lung cancer are biopsies, which are highly involved and invasive for patients…

An experimental vaccine, called TG4010, given together with chemotherapy resulted in significantly more progression free survival in patients with advanced lung cancer compared to those on chemotherapy alone, researchers from the Université de Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France, reported in the journal The Lancet Oncology…

An international effort to replace smoky, inefficient household stoves that people commonly use in lower and middle income countries with clean, affordable, fuel efficient stoves could save nearly 2 million lives each year, according to experts from the National Institutes of Health…

According to today’s announcement by Roche, Tarceva (erlotinib), an oral lung cancer treatment, has been officially licensed as first-line monotherapy for the treatment of patients with advanced forms of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a certain mutation, saving them from up-front chemotherapy…

All the excitement about nanotechnology comes down to this: Structures of materials at the scale of billionths of a meter take on unusual properties…

Scientific studies into oxytocin, a hormone that produces feelings of contentment after an orgasm, have inspired researchers from The Australian National University to investigate new therapies for small-cell lung cancer, the most common cause of cancer death in Australia…

According to new research published in the European Respiratory Journal, sniffer dogs could be used for the early detection of lung cancer, Researchers from the Schillerhoehe Hospital in Germany were the first to discover that sniffer dogs can reliably detect lung cancer…

Giving elderly lung cancer patients platinum-based doublet chemotherapy lengthens median overall survival considerably compared to monotherapy, despite its increased toxic effects - treatment for those on monotherapy should be revised, French researchers wrote in The Lancet…

A new study, titled ‘National Lung Screening Trial’ (NLST), conducted by the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) and the National Cancer Institute’s Lung Screening Study Group, has shown a twenty percent decline in mortality due to lung cancer among study participants who were screened with low-dose helical computed tomography (CT) compared to those screened with chest X-ray…