Researchers have taken an important step toward better lung cancer treatment by using blood tests to track genetic changes in tumors as they progress from their very earliest stages. With experimental tests that detect bits of DNA that tumors shed into the blood, they were ...
Most lung cancer patients survived four months longer on an immunotherapy drug than those treated with chemotherapy, according to trial results published Monday. Importantly, they also experienced fewer side effects, researchers reported in The Lancet medical journal. Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer — which represents the ...
The government tables new rules to cut down on secondhand smoke amid a global trend toward cleaner air.
An estimated 15,000 people die annually in Japan from stroke, lung cancer or other diseases caused by passive smoking, according to a study by a health ministry research team. Deaths due to stroke account for more than half of the total, the ministry said Monday. The ...
The National Cancer Center has launched a project to find patients with a rare type of lung cancer for clinical tests on a new drug that may be effective in combating the disease. The rare cancer is caused by a genetic anomaly that occurs when ...
In a rare and promising finding, a drug under development in Japan is found to eradicate human lung cancer tumors in mice.
