A recent study by scientists from the USC Keck School of Medicine and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu showed there are differences in the risk of developing lung cancer among racial and ethnic populations, and the differences were most pronounced among people who smoke fewer than a pack-and-a-half per day.

Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center found a high risk of developing a variety of cancers among first-degree relatives of lung cancer patients who never smoked cigarettes.

Penny Edwards, diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and expected to die this year, is spending the remainder of her time bringing public attention to lung cancer.

A therapeutic vaccine being developed for non-small cell lung cancer should be going into Phase III testing this autumn.

This article concerns women going through treatment for breast cancer and how they felt better when they tried yoga. 

“We expected that we would find that a history of heavy marijuana use–more than 500 to 1,000 uses–would increase the risk of cancer from several years to decades after exposure to marijuana,” explains physician Donald Tashkin of the University of California, Los Angeles, and lead researcher on the project. But looking at residents of Los Angeles County, the scientists found that even those who smoked more than 20,000 joints in their life did not have an increased risk of lung cancer.

Beginning in 1999, an experimental vaccine for lung cancer was tested at the University of Miami in 19 patients, all of whom were out of options. Six responded and survived for several years. Four are still alive, having had no other treatment for this deadly disease. Now, 70 new patients will get a chance to try the vaccine.

Research from the Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals of Cleveland has found a promising, novel biomarker that may be used to predict the survival of patients with advanced lung cancer and their response to treatment. More…