The Latest Breaking News from Lung Cancer

The annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology is always the biggest event-making cancer conference. And this year, the attention-grabber was AstraZeneca, as its lung and breast cancer drugs significantly slowed the spread of disease in two trials, potentially establishing the medicines as the new standard of care…

A Pfizer medicine has been shown to greatly reduce cancer progression and improve survival outcomes for people in the advanced stages of a form of lung cancer, results published Friday showed.

More than half of patients with advanced forms of disease who took lorlatinib were still alive after five years with no progression

Ex-smokers who vape still face a high risk of lung cancer compared to those who quit nicotine completely.

The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer

Doctors say it's very unusual to develop a visual impairment as the first symptom of lung cancer.

Scientific advances in immunotherapy and new targeted therapies have increased survival rates. But screening among former and current smokers still needs to improve to save more lives.

Trial in Libby, Montana against BNSF Railway for asbestos exposure-related lung cancer deaths and ongoing legal battles.

“Additionally, the evidence derived from these systematic reviews and meta-analyses will be systematically assessed for its strength utilising the GRADE. This grading methodology will serve to evaluate the quality of evidence, which will subsequently inform the formulation of recommendations following the application of the Evidence to Decision (EtD) framework,’’ noted…

The AFL world is in mourning following the death of former St Kilda president Andrew Plympton from lung cancer.

The vaccine was created using technology similar to the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine