In a study of mice with lung cancer, a treatment that targeted nicotine receptors more than doubled the animals’ survival time, Italian researchers say. Nicotine plays a dual role in lung cancer. Changes in genes encoding nicotine receptors not only drive the urge the smoke, but also increase susceptibility to lung cancer.

Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, on a quest to find lung cancer stem cells, have developed a unique model to allow further investigation into the cells that many believe may be at the root of all lung cancers.

If researchers could find a way to isolate and grow lung cancer stem cells, they could study their biologic mechanisms and perhaps identify targets for new therapies, said Raj Batra, an associate professor of medicine and a Jonsson Cancer Center scientist.

Scientists may someday be able to fight lung cancer using gene therapy delivered by an inhalable spray.

In a new study, mice with lung cancer that were treated with a vaporized viral vector twice a week for four weeks had fewer, smaller tumors than untreated mice.

Once a frightening monolith of a disease, lung cancer slowly is being recognized as not a single ailment, but several.

With the finding that lung cancer isn’t a single disease, it also turns out some varieties are more treatable than others.

More than half the people who have been treated with what is called the alk inhibitor, referring to the alk gene, experienced some improvement, and more than half saw dramatic shrinkages in their tumors, Camidge said.

The typical patient with metastatic lung cancer lives four to eight months after diagnosis. Yet barely more than half of doctors caring for these patients discuss using hospice care to help manage these last months of life, according to a May 25 Archives of Internal Medicinestudy.

After two glorious weeks free, for the most part, of having chemicals pumped into my body to kill my lung cancer, I embarked Wednesday on daily treatments of low-dose radiation of the brain.

To bring readers up to date, I was diagnosed March 10 with small-cell lung cancer. Six days later, I began a very aggressive course of treatment with radiation of my chest twice a day every weekday through April 7.

Signed “a frustrated U.S. citizen,” Stacey Macchiarulo’s letter to President Barack Obama tells a tale that rings true for millions of Americans also shaken to the core by the insurance industry:

How can it be, the Oakwood resident questions, that somebody like her mother who worked hard her entire life, was forced into poverty and bankruptcy when she first was diagnosed with lung cancer?

A McLean County, Illinois jury returned a $2 million verdict, last Thursday, to the family of a deceased woman, who died from asbestos exposure related cancer. As reported by the Pantagraph, Leslie Corry, of Bloomington, Illinois, died from mesothelioma lung cancer after she laundered the work clothe, of her first husband, a former worker at Union Asbestos & Rubber Company.

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly endorsed the U.S. Senate version of the FDA tobacco regulation bill with a 307-97 vote — an emphatic exclamation point for the successful conclusion of a decade long battle.

Lung Cancer Alliance President Laurie Fenton Ambrose called its passage an historic moment in public history.

It is being reported that scientists have managed to develop a method of reducing one way that people can get lung cancer.

They were able to do this by figuring out a way of blocking nanoparticles from entering into a person’s lungs, thus reducing their overall risk of developing the deadly form of cancer.