Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Treatment Options
Getting the best treatment once lung cancer has been diagnosed, typed and classified.
Lung Cancer Topics
Latest
As A Child, She Had Bone Cancer, As An Adult? Non-smoker Lung Cancer
Tori Tomalia had bone cancer when she was young, and spent most of a year at the Mayo Clinic. When she was 37, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Here's her story.
Former Smoker? Stay Vigilant About Lung Cancer Screenings
Congrats on quitting. But your risk of complications remains higher, new research shows.
Lung Cancer More Prevalent in Young Women
A new study explores why this form of cancer seems to be rising in women born since the mid-1960s.
New Diagnostic Marker for Lung Cancer Identified
Researchers in Japan recently discovered that patients with lung cancer, including those with Stage 1 disease, have significantly higher-than-normal levels of a biomarker called cytoskeleton-associated protein 4 (CKAP4).
Different Lung Cancer Types and Subtypes Explained
The two major types of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and the subtypes of each, are examined in this slideshow.
Meet the Experts
Sheila M. Eldred
Health WriterSheila Mulrooney Eldred has written for The New York Times, Nature, FiveThirtyEight, STAT News, and other publications.
Eileen Bailey
Health WriterEileen Bailey is an award-winner author of six books on health and parenting. She specializes in ADHD, Anxiety, Sexual Health, Skin Care, Psoriasis and Skin Cancer.
Stephanie Stephens
M.A., Health WriterStephanie Stephens is a digital journalist, audio/video producer and host, specializing in health and celebrities.
Health News
Study Shows High Formaldehyde Risk From E-Cigs
Researchers from Portland State University in Oregon, who published a study three years ago about formaldehyde in electronic cigarettes, have updated their findings to indicate levels of the highly toxic substance in e-cig vapor are even higher than ...
How's Your Health? It May Depend on Where You Live
Working-age adults in some states faced a 10 percent higher risk of premature death in 2016 than in 1990, say researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle. That’s one conclusion from the mo...
Alcohol-Related Liver Cancer Carries a Worse Prognosis
People with alcohol-related liver cancer often do not live as long as those whose liver cancer is not associated with alcohol consumption, according to a study published in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society. Over a five-year period, re...