After an initial chemotherapy treatment, radiation may be a better choice than surgery for patients with stage IIIA non-small-cell lung cancer, according to a randomized controlled trial published in the March 21 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
A hormone that is important in the control of blood pressure also shrinks lung cancer tumors in mice, suggesting a new way to prevent or treat the deadly cancer, according to scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Advances in radiation therapy for cancer have made it possible to fine-tune radiation beams so they match the shape and position of a patient’s tumor nearly anywhere in the body.
Long-term, high-level exposure to bacterial endotoxin — a contaminant found in raw cotton fiber and cotton dust — is associated with a 40 percent decrease in lung cancer risk among female Chinese textile workers, according to a new study in the March 7 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The first report of an international study looking at computed tomography (CT) to screen current or former smokers for lung cancer found that screening did not reduce deaths from lung cancer.
Screening current or former smokers with the imaging technique of computed tomography may increase the rate of diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, but may not necessarily reduce the risk of advanced lung cancer or death from lung cancer, according to a study in the March 7 issue of JAMA.
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a gene expression marker that distinguishes smokers with lung cancer from smokers without the disease.
AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced the commencement of a new Phase III study of its new investigational once-daily orally administered drug, vandetanib (ZACTIMA(R), ZD6474).
AstraZeneca announced the commencement of a new Phase III study of its new investigational once-daily orally administered drug, vandetanib (ZACTIMA(R), ZD6474).
A breath test can successfully pick up lung cancer with “moderate accuracy” even in the early stages, reveals research published ahead of print in Thorax.