#lung cancer

Black Americans are at greater risk for serious illnesses but are less likely to receive care that can make these diseases less painful.

Although most people screened meet the USPSTF criteria, only one in five returned for a follow-up test a year later.

Plus, a court ruling has the potential to invalidate required free screenings, including for breast, colorectal, cervical and lung cancer.

Pre-pandemic report shows a modest improvement for survival for people with hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer.

However, lung cancer incidence among HIV-positive people has fallen over the past two decades.

Regular screening can detect lung cancer early, when it’s easier to treat.

Watch Narjust Florez (Duma), MD, discuss findings from the largest study to date evaluating sexual dysfunction in women with lung cancer.

Biden is expected to sign the PACT Act. His son, Major Beau Biden, was exposed to burn pits and later died of brain cancer.

Can a person’s immune system help prevent two types of non-small-cell lung cancer? Here’s how Robert Keith, MD, hopes to find out.

However, when compared to the general population, the suicide risk for cancer patients remains elevated, finds a new study.

Authors of a new study stress the need to improve access to cancer screenings, especially for minorities and lower-income populations.

A new study finds that Medicaid expansion increases survival and reduces health disparities for newly diagnosed patients with cancer.

Death rates declined in most cancer types, especially in lung and stomach cancer cases.

Thirty-five years post-cancer diagnosis, one in seven survivors developed new cancer and one in 16 survivors died from new cancer.

Personalized risk assessment identified 9% more lung cancer cases for screening compared with current U.S. guidelines.

Lung cancer patients had less depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic than their healthy counterparts.