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The 2026 IASLC Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer meeting brought together leading oncologists, surgeons, and patient ...

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

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that aging may fundamentally reshape how lung cancer spreads. A stress-response protein called ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Conditions other than cancer may cause these symptoms, so if you have any of them, you should not immediately assume you have lung cancer. If you have any symptoms that concern you or if you are at ...