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 Endoscopic ultrasound, a minimally invasive procedure in which a camera-tipped scope is inserted down the esophagus, can safely and effectively determine whether masses in or around the lungs are cancerous or benign.

MP Chris Huhne has joined grieving families to call for a wider investigation into cancer cases at Ford’s Southampton factory.

Eastleigh’s Liberal Democrat MP today pledged his support for a second inquiry at the Swaythling plant focusing on all forms of cancer.

The American biotechnology company Genentech said Thursday that a low dose of its cancer drug Avastin worked just as well as a more expensive high dose in a clinical trial of patients with lung cancer.

Almost 200,000 people in the UK could still get asbestos-related cancers, say scientists funded by Cancer Research UK.

Exposure to asbestos causes a form of cancer called mesothelioma - which affects the lining of the lungs - as well as lung cancer. The symptoms can take many decades to emerge.

Roche Holding AG said cancer drug Avastin in combination with chemotherapy met its primary endpoint of improving progression free survival in patients with previously untreated advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a new Phase III study.

A genetic test holds promise for identifying which early-stage lung cancer patients would benefit from chemotherapy and which would be better off without it, researchers report.

Pharmacyclics, Inc. today announced that it has received a refuse to file letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company’s new drug application (NDA) for Xcytrin® (motexafin gadolinium) Injection for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases.

While smoking remains the predominant cause of lung cancer, a new study reveals that incidence rates of lung cancer among people who have never smoked (never smokers) are higher in women than in men. The study results were published in the February 10 Journal of Clinical Oncology. This study is unlike previous studies that focused mainly on mortality rates and that found men had higher lung cancer mortality rates than women.

Nearly 200,000 people will die from lung cancer because of exposure to asbestos, scientists warned today.

Those particularly at risk are people born in the 1940s who worked in the construction industry.

Carpenters, laggers, shipyard workers, metal workers and electricians now in their 60s are all in the highest-risk category.

It has been six months since an Anderson pastor was told cancer had spread throughout his body and that he had less than a year to live. 

But when doctors removed the tumors, they also made a surprising discovery — something they said is nothing short of a miracle, 6News’ Stacia Matthews reported.