Cigarette smoking is by far the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, data shows — but in a surprising turn of events, the most common form of the disease is primarily found in non-smokers.

Lung cancer survival rates can be as high as 98% for certain cancers diagnosed in an early stage, and as low as 4% for those diagnosed with more aggressive cancers in advanced stages. Survival rates ...

Lung cancer screening aims to find lung cancer early. This is when there are more treatment options available and there is the best chance of treating it successfully. In the UK, the National ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life ...

The gold standard for finding lung cancer early is computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening. However, this is limited to people who have smoked. Currently, there are more non-smokers (never ...

Lung neuroendocrine cancers are lung cancers that develop in the neuroendocrine cells of the lung. Your healthcare team might also call them lung neuroendocrine neoplasms (lung NENs). But this means ...

Currently, there are no consensus-based staging methods for EC with supraclavicular lymph node (SCLN) metastasis. In this review, we present a summary of several classification methods of the SCLNs ...

Herein, we presented a patient with EML4-ALK+ lung adenocarcinoma with multiple metastases harboring multiple gene ... Physical examination revealed a firm, fixed, enlarged left supraclavicular lymph ...

Lung cancer arises in tissues of the lung, usually in the cells lining air passages. The two main types are small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, according to the shape of cells ...

Introduction In the UK, most people with lung cancer are diagnosed at a late stage when curative treatment is not possible. To aid earlier detection, the socio-demographic and early clinical features ...

Lung cancer is a form of cancer wherein abnormal cells start to grow in the lungs in an uncontrolled way. According to World Cancer Research Fund, there were nearly 2.4 million new cases of lung ...