LungBlog

This article discusses the statistics of various smoking-related cancers and other health issues of women in the United Kingdom who smoke.

This article gives a more in depth look at the report in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. 

A study reported in the current Journal of Clinical Oncology found that the five-year survival rate for certain lung cancer patients treated with surgery and radiation therapy was 7 percent higher than patients treated only with surgery - a 27 percent survival rate compared to just 20 percent. The patients who received the most survival benefit from the radiation therapy were those whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes.

Professor Jeffrey Settleman, from Harvard Medical School, told a conference in Glasgow that resistance to key drugs used to treat lung cancer patients could be tackled after research into what causes people to stop responding to treatment.

High expression of a gene known as HLJ1 appears to reduce the growth and spread of lung cancer cells, and is linked with improved patient survival. These results were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

A survivor story that illustrates how early screening can save lives.  Jacqueline Patrick was lucky; a car accident was the reason doctor’s were able to catch her lung cancer before it spread.

Overwhelmingly, the most important determinant of outcome in patients with lung cancer is stage.  This article explores the typing of lung cancer.

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

Among people who have never smoked, deaths from lung cancer are no higher in women than they are in men.

Patients with breast, lung and kidney cancer lived longer or saw symptoms reduced in clinical trials that were released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Atlanta.