According to emerging studies, there is now clear proof that radon gas increases lung cancer risks. Radon is an odorless and colorless gas that can be found in many homes.

St. Louis University researchers are comparing two standard treatments for lung cancer — one that uses surgery to remove the tumor and another that delivers high, focused doses of radiation with a robot.

The clinical trial will compare the three-year survival rate of patients who have a lobectomy with those who use the radiation treatment with the robotic CyberKnife. Participants must have early-stage non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer.

People who eat lots of soy-based foods have better lung function and are less likely to develop the smoking-associated lung disease COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) say researchers.

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are among an elite group of cancer scientists to share a $2 million grant to find biomarkers for lung cancer that develops in people who have never smoked.

Women who have premature menopause because of medical interventions are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer. The startling link was made by epidemiologists from the Université de Montréal, the Research Centre of the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal and the INRS—Institut Armand-Frappier.

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As many of us grow weary of the controversy over the HPV vaccine, we now have another variable thrown into the expanding equation. According to the authors of a study published in the journal Lung Cancer, HPV may even be the 2nd most important cause of lung cancer after smoking.

Adenocarcinoma patients who have never smoked, especially those who carry mutations in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene, have higher levels of a molecule, microRNA miR-21, than smokers with this type of lung cancer, U.S. and Japanese scientists found.

Sue Burns, part of the heart and soul of the Giants, died early Sunday morning at her home in Atherton. She was 58.

Mrs. Burns was a passionate baseball fan and principal owner of the Giants, a close friend of Barry Bonds through his best and worst of times, and an enthusiastic supporter of the team, regardless of its place in the standings.

Abbott Molecular, the fast-growing unit of Abbott Laboratories that makes genomic and other medical tests, said on Monday it entered into an agreement with British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to develop a test to screen for lung cancer.

The company said the test will focus on an antigen called MAGE-A3 and will screen for non-small lung cancer tumors.

Some groundbreaking research will be presented at the upcoming International Conference on Lung Cancer in San Francisco.

It includes treatments that can be personally tailored for an individual’s type of cancer. A San Francisco opera singer who was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the age of 42 is already seeing the benefits of targeted treatment.

Zheng Cao is a guest singer with the San Francisco Opera. She was diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer just three months ago.