Lung Cancer News

A controversial radiation treatment for patients who've had lung cancer surgery may not help elderly people live longer, U.S. researchers have found.

My bed is looking too good, and I see myself slipping into chemo mode where inactivity becomes my activity.

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have discovered that the immune response regulator IKBKE plays two roles in tobacco-related non-small cell lung cancers.

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that post-operative radiation therapy , a controversial yet frequently administered treatment for lung cancer, may not prolong life in older people with locally advanced disease.

Roger LaLonde Staff "Disco" Dave Bierbrauer practices with an iron as members of the Classics Country Club, from left, Art Arduin, Cassie Demetsky and Denny Brooke, watch.

Keith Haynes and his daughter Jessie pose for a photo on Thursday February 9, 2012 at their home in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.

More than half of lung and colon cancer patients may benefit from high-speed tests that detect DNA flaws doctors can target with existing medicines, a study found.

I am physician and much of what we do is smoking related disease. Treatment of emphysema and the diagnosis of lung cancer is a regular occurrence.

Ballyshannon Town Council has called on Donegal County Council to check for Radon levels in Ballyshannon.

KC's 23 1/2 Hour Plumbing in Palm Springs has made a commitment to sponsor a food drive to... Dennis Golary and Larry Gibson were diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s. Doctors gave them 18 months to live, but death didn't come; heart disease, pneumonia, blindness, staph, diabetes and Hepatitis C did.

Free radon home test kits By Kandi Buckland, R.N., M.P.A. Executive director, El Paso County Public Health In an effort to raise awareness and encourage families to test their homes for radon, El Paso County Public Health is offering vouchers for free radon test kits.

Many patients with advanced cancer suffer from cachexia, a condition also called body-wasting or wasting syndrome, which causes significant weight loss, extreme fatigue and reduces quality of life.

FOUR Debbie Cornes spent more than a year undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with two brain aneurysms in 2009.

Dean Hale is free of cancer and rarin' to go-back to work on a Murrieta fire truck that is.

In a large analysis of men participating in a prostate drug trial, researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute found a significant correlation between coronary artery disease and prostate cancer, suggesting the two conditions may have shared causes.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration began inspecting Duke's Institutional Review Board after a former Duke researcher and oncologist, Dr.

Will reducing teen smoking result in less lung cancer? Is there a sure, safe way to convince teens not to smoke? What can be done to reduce teen smoking statistics in Baltimore? Making school campuses smoke free throughout Baltimore County has not been 100% successful in keeping teens from smoking! Perhaps you may recall going to high school as a ... (more)

Dear Judie: Mom has mid-stage Alzheimer's. I'm 63 and was recently diagnosed with lung cancer.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo, in calling Wednesday for a budget that does not include Governor Patrick's proposed tax hikes on cigarettes, candy and soda, appears to be parroting anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who was selling the same message in the state a day earlier.

One hears bandied about the concept of "personalized medicine" or "targeted therapies" in the treatment of cancer.