Squamous cell carcinoma treatment varies by stage, involving surgery, radiation, and systemic therapies based on cancer ...

This fact sheet explains how lung cancer is staged, and what each stage means. Lung cancer staging can be complex, but this fact sheet is intended for patient education. Our easy-to-read fact sheets ...

Lung cancer is deadliest form of cancer for a few reasons. First, it's the second most commonly diagnosed form of cancer behind only skin cancer. The American Cancer Society reports that about 14 ...

“Lung cancer, though common and serious, still has many misconceptions,” says Ian Bostock, MD, a thoracic surgeon at Miami Cancer Institute in Florida. “Clearing these myths helps patients and ...

Investigators evaluated the proportion, clinical characteristics, and survival of patients with lung cancer who met or were excluded from USPSTF criteria and used institutional and published data to ...

One thing that we're seeing is lung cancers being diagnosed earlier and earlier, whereas, historically, 75% of lung cancers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We believe that these results are quite powerful and informative,” Christopher Seder, MD, thoracic surgeon at ...

Older Americans with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer are spending an increasing amount of time in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Guidelines for the management of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer were last published in 2013. The new ...

CLEVELAND — The traditional profile of a lung cancer patient—an older male smoker—no longer reflects the reality of who is being diagnosed with the disease today. Nearly 20% of new lung cancer ...

Stage 4 lung cancer, also called metastatic lung cancer, is the most aggressive and life-threatening stage of the disease. By this point, cancer has spread from the lungs to vital organs such as the ...