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 | The Role of Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery in the Management of Lung Cancer
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| | The use of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has allowed surgeons to perform complex procedures that previously required a thoracotomy, an open chest procedure. Over the past several years, the ... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Who is a Candidate for Surgery?: An Emerging Role for PET Scanning
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| | Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and continues to have a poor survival. Complete surgical resection offers the best chance for cure. This article describes the p... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in the Elderly
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| | Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States for both men and women. In the United States, 80% of patients with lung cancer have non-small cell lung cancer, while the ... [more]
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| Mesothelioma: Questions and Answers
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| | Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer in which malignant (cancerous) cells are found in the mesothelium, a protective sac that covers most of the body’s internal organs,... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Key Immune Cells Predict Recurrence in Lung Cancer Patients
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| | DURHAM, NC – Patients treated surgically for early-stage lung cancer face an increased risk of recurrence if their tumors contain a large number of cells that act as "dimmer switches" on the immune... [more]
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| Lung Cancer Books
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| | Lung Cancer Book Section of the CancerNews.com service. Books related to lung cancer treatment, prevention, screening, survival and support.... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Study Shows No Reduction in Lung Cancer Deaths after CT Screening
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| | Tampa, FL (March 6, 2007) – The first report of an international study looking at computed tomography (CT) to screen current or former smokers for lung cancer found that screening did not reduce death... [more]
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| Medically Inoperable Lung Cancer
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| | Surgery remains the treatment of choice for patients with stage I and II (early stage) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).(1,2) However, a substantial number of patients are medically inoperable becau... [more]
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| Lung Cancer Research: Biomarkers may lead to personalized treatment in lung cancer patients
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| | Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have discovered biomarkers that predict which patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer will respond to a combination treatment of the anti-inflamma... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) of Lung Tumors
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| | RFA is a promising local therapy that has evolved rapidly in recent years for the treatment of primary and secondary cancers in the lung. The feasibility and safety profile in humans are well establis... [more]
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| Lung Cancer News: Iressa Proves Just as Effective as Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer
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| | Gefitinib, also known as Iressa, the once-promising targeted therapy for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, has proven as effective as chemotherapy as a second-line therapy for the disease ... [more]
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| High-dose radiation improves lung cancer survival, University of Michigan study finds
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| | ANN ARBOR, Mich - Higher doses of radiation combined with chemotherapy improve survival in patients with stage III lung cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan ... [more]
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| Small Cell Lung Cancer: Combination radiotherapy and chemotherapy studied by M. D. Anderson
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| | Treating limited stage small cell lung cancer (LSCL) with a combination of accelerated high-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy has shown encouraging results, opening the door to larger scale investiga... [more]
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| Study Ties Abnormal Cells in Blood to Lung Cancer
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| | A novel approach detects genetically abnormal cells in the blood of non-small cell lung cancer patients that match abnormalities found in tumor cells and increase in number with the severity of the ... [more]
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| Lung Cancer: Lung-Cancer Mortality Reduced with Low-Dose Computed Tomographic Screening
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| | Scientists have found a 20 percent reduction in deaths from lung cancer among current or former heavy smokers who were screened with low-dose helical computed tomography (CT) versus those screened by ... [more]
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| Lung Cancer Prognosis: PET imaging effective in predicting lung cancer outcomes
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| | CLEVELAND – Advanced imaging with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans shows great promise in predicting which patients with inoperable lung cancer have more aggressive tumors and need additional ... [more]
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| Lung Cancer News: Mayo Clinic Finds Switch That Lets Early Lung Cancer Grow Unchecked
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| | JACKSONVILLE,Fla — Cellular change thought to happen only in late-stage cancers to help tumors spread also occurs in early-stage lung cancer as a way to bypass growth controls, say researchers at Mayo... [more]
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