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Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Let's Fight This Scourge!
bHighlights:/bul class="group-list punch-points"liLung Cancer Awareness Month is celebrated annually in November/liliIts objective is to raise awareness and enlighten the population about the dangers...
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Lung Cancer Patients Show Increased Survival When Treated With New Drug
Patients with lung cancer having specific genetic alterations in ALK (Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase) gene were able to live longer and the spread of the cancer to the brain was prevented when the...
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Many Lung Cancer Patients Benefit from Gene Therapy, Immunotherapy
Medical advancements in gene targeted therapy and immunotherapy benefits lung cancer patients in terms of survival years, as per the team of researchers at the American hospital, Cleveland Clinic. Dr....
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New Drug to Treat Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Drug osimertinib has been approved by FDA for the treatment of adults with early-stage, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR gene mutations, revealed a clinical trial led by Yale Cancer Center...
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Immunotherapy Holds Potential To Treat Resistant Lung Cancer
Novel combination holds potential in treating lung cancer. It also trigger changes to the tumor that enable second therapy to fight the cancer cells. The first therapy employs suppressed "natural...
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Combination Therapy Helps Overcome Resistance In Lung Cancer Patients
b85 percent of the lung cancer cases are of the non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) type which is not sensitive to chemotherapy./b Hence, NSCLC therapies are usually based on drug treatment. A...
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Nivolumab Found Effective to Treat Malignant Mesothelioma
Nivolumab found effective for relapsed malignant mesothelioma (MM), according to research presented at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer....
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Lung Cancer Patients Reduce Smoking Rate After Enrollment in Clinical Trial
Patients with lung cancer who enrolled in phase III early-stage trial revealed a high smoking reduction rate and cessation following study entry, stated research published today in the Journal of...
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Comparing First Line Treatment Of ALK Positive Lung Cancer
A phase III CROWN study's patient-reported outcomes showed that the time to treatment deterioration (TTD) in chest pain, shortness of breath, and cough was comparable between those who received...
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Lung Cancer can be Treated Better With Deep Learning
Deep learning can one day help doctors and healthcare workers decide the best treatment method for lung cancer patients, reveals a team of Penn State Great Valley researchers. In a study, the...
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Red Ginseng can Suppress Lung Cancer Metastasis
Red ginseng has inhibitory effects against lung cancer metastasis, as per the research team in Korea. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) reported that a joint study conducted by Dr....
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New Drug Approved for Early Lung Cancer
In China, AstraZeneca's drug Tagrisso has been approved for early stage lung cancer treatment. China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved the drug as an adjuvant therapy for...
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Novel Drug Proven Effective Against Mutated Lung Cancer
Tumor size in lung cancer patients who have a specific genetic error in the KRAS gene is reduced, as per the i CODEBREAK 100 /i phase 2 clinical trial at the NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School...
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High AIM2 Inflammasomes Seen in COPD Lung Cancer Patients
Cigarette smoking is the leading risk factor for COPD and lung cancer establishment, as per the iOncotarget's/i study "Caspase-11 and AIM2 inflammasome are involved in smoking-induced COPD and lung...
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Novel Cell Death-related Gene Signature Could Predict the Prognosis of Lung...
Genes related to iron-dependent programmed cell death could be used as potential prognostic tools in detecting non-small cell lung cancers. Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related...
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New AI Blood Test for Lung Cancer Detection
A novel artificial intelligence blood testing technology can detect over 90% of lung cancers in samples from nearly 800 individuals with and without cancer. bThe test approach, called DELFI (DNA...
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Berry Vine of Asia Proves Useful in Fighting Lung Cancer
Berry-producing vine could help prevent lung cancer, as per the research group led by Associate Professor ARIMOTO-KOBAYASHI Sakae at Okayama University. Lung cancer is known to be the most fatal form...
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New Inexpensive Anti-angiogenic Drug to Treat Lung Cancer
The efficacy and safety of QL1101 is compared to bevacizumab in the study led by Prof. Baohui Han. The study details are published in iCancer Biology (and) Medicine/i. According to Prof. Han, "We're...
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Origins of Lung Cancer in Never Smokers Revealed
Majority of lung cancer tumors arise from the accumulation of mutations caused by natural processes in the body, say researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes...
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Lung Cancer Patients More Likely to Feel Anxiety During Pandemic
Lung cancer patients treated in hospitals reported increased levels of anxiety and saw their treatment delayed or due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stated a new study presented today at the IASLC World...
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