The most common form of lung cancer is primarily found in non-smokers, a new study reveals. Doctors react to the surprising driver of the disease and other risk factors.

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Lung cancer is one of the most common, most dangerous, and most frequently talked about forms of cancer in the world. Of all ...

CT imaging of patients entering lung cancer treatment identified a high prevalence of atherosclerosis, according to data ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their ...

Patients in China with bronchiectasis in lower- vs higher-income regions are ... tomography within the previous year showing bronchiectasis affecting 1 or more lung lobes. The researchers ...

Participants were selected based on one of the following symptoms: 1) early-onset bronchiectasis confirmed by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) thorax with suggestive clinical features; 2) ...

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 ...

Background There are limited data on the burden of cardiovascular comorbidities in people with bronchiectasis. Our cross-sectional study estimates the burden of pre-existing diagnoses of coronary ...

Conclusion The BSI accurately predicts mortality, hospital admissions, exacerbations, QoL, respiratory symptoms, 6MWD and lung function decline in bronchiectasis, providing a clinically relevant ...

Objectives To investigate the sex-specific association between smoking and lung cancer. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources We searched PubMed and EMBASE from 1 January 1999 to 15 ...