Lung Cancer News and Research

Latest Lung Cancer News and Research

Is ‘precision medicine’ the answer to cancer? Not precisely.

Facing incurable breast cancer at age 55, MaryAnne DiCanto put her faith in "precision medicine" — in which doctors try to match patients with drugs that target the genetic mutations in their tumors. She underwent repeated biopsies to identify therapies that might help.

13 Sep 2018

Cancer to kill nearly 10 million this year says WHO report

According to a report released by the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency this week, 9.6 million people would lose their lives to cancer this year. This translates as one in eight of all deaths and one in eleven of all deaths among men and women respectively says the agency.

13 Sep 2018

Sleep apnea can favor lung cancer growth in young individuals

A scientific study, conducted with animal models, states that sleep apnea can favor lung cancer growth in young individuals. Thus, aging would be a protecting factor against the fast tumor development, induced by this sleep alteration.

12 Sep 2018

New diagnostic tool for difficult-to-detect cancers

A new diagnostic tool is expected to result in better treatment of cancer that is difficult to diagnose. The tool was developed by cancer researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy and doctors at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. Their study, which has been published in JCO Precision Oncology, started with a single cancer patient.

6 Sep 2018

BeiGene collaborates with SpringWorks to evaluate new combinational therapy for solid tumors

BeiGene, Ltd., a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative molecularly-targeted and immuno-oncology drugs for the treatment of cancer, and SpringWorks Therapeutics, a clinical-stage rare disease and oncology company focused on sourcing and developing innovative treatments for underserved patient populations, announced today that the companies have entered into a global clinical collaboration agreement to evaluate the safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of combining BeiGene's investigational RAF dimer inhibitor, lifirafenib and SpringWorks Therapeutics' investigational MEK inhibitor, PD-0325901, in patients with advanced solid tumors.

6 Sep 2018

Study examines unnecessary medicine use in patients with advanced lung cancer

Individuals with advanced lung cancer often have other comorbid conditions, and many may be on complex, costly, and even inappropriate medication regimens.

6 Sep 2018

Japan acknowledges death due to radiation exposure at Fukushima nuclear power plant

For the first time, Japan has acknowledged that the death in a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant occurred due to radiation exposure. The power plant was destroyed in a tsunami and an earthquake around seven years back.

6 Sep 2018

Image Cytometry Technology and Tissue Analysis

Image cytometry or tissue cytometry, not only measures the size, diameter and shape of a cell, but quantifies the molecular marker expression.

From TissueGnostics 4 Sep 2018

Genetic mutations may drive tumor formation by blurring growth signals

Genetic mutations in a form of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may drive tumor formation by blurring cells' perception of key growth signals, according to a new laboratory study published August 31, 2018 in Science.

3 Sep 2018

Californians living longer with cancer — some longer than others

As he grew older, Dale Kunitomi paid closer attention to his health — and to his doctor's advice. When he noticed rectal bleeding in 2010, he went to see his physician, who ordered a colonoscopy.

30 Aug 2018

New study suggests chemotherapy may cause early menopause in women with lung cancer

A new study suggests chemotherapy may cause acute amenorrhea leading to early menopause in women with lung cancer.

29 Aug 2018

Death of Sen. John McCain sheds new light on aggressive brain tumor

The death today of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) sheds a new light on glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer that the American Brain Tumor Association estimated would be diagnosed in nearly 13,000 people this year.

27 Aug 2018

Forbius receives $18.75 million grant from CPRIT for Phase 2a development of AVID100

Forbius announced today that it has been awarded a Product Development grant totaling $18.75 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.

25 Aug 2018

Smoking has increased enormously among the youngest

"Since 1970, campaigns against smoking seem to have been largely successful, but the message has not been able to reach the youngest ages," says professor Cecilie Svanes at Centre for International Health at The University of Bergen.

24 Aug 2018

IASLC presents 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Toronto

The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer presents the IASLC 19th World Conference on Lung Cancer on September 23-26, 2018, in Toronto, Canada.

23 Aug 2018

Engineers create artificial intelligence system to detect tiny specks of tumors

Doctors may soon have help in the fight against cancer thanks to the University of Central Florida's Computer Vision Research Center.

22 Aug 2018

Discovery could lead to new targeted treatment for people with lung cancer

Scientists have identified a key molecular player in a subtype of lung cancer which could lead to a new way to tackle the disease, according to research published in Nature Communications.

22 Aug 2018

FDA approves Dako PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx assay for expanded use in urothelial carcinoma

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its Dako PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx assay for expanded use in urothelial carcinoma.

22 Aug 2018

Gene therapy with telomerase does not increase cancer risk, study shows

Negative results and findings in science are perhaps less newsworthy, but they are no less important. Particularly when, as in this case, they demonstrate that a possible new therapeutic pathway against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other diseases associated to short telomeres is in fact safe.

21 Aug 2018

Scientists identify pathways that reveal insights into mechanism of lung cancer etiology

Lung cancer is the leading cause of preventable cancer death. A disease of complex origin, lung cancer is usually considered to result from effects of smoking and from multiple genetic variants.

17 Aug 2018