Clinical research out of University Hospitals Case Medical Center has found that African Americans with a common form of lung cancer have a lower frequency of drug-sensitizing genetic mutations ...

Percent predicted preoperative and postoperative forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV 1) was calculated for African American patients who underwent lung cancer resection between January 1 ...

A new report from Linn County Public Health highlights disparities in cancer diagnoses and access to care. The research, ...

Age-specific analyses from the SEER 17 data demonstrated that African Americans under the age of 50 years are almost twice as likely to develop lung cancer as whites in the same age group . 1 On ...

Most lung cancer screening guidelines hinge on how much people smoked tobacco and when they last smoked, but the American Cancer Society now says it doesn’t matter how long ago they quit.

Veronica shares the story of her 29-year-old son who fought lung cancer, and how it has inspired her advocacy.

The number one group that die of lung cancer are African-American men. When we look at breast cancer, although Caucasian women are diagnosed more frequently with breast cancer, African-American ...

BlackDoctor Foundation & AstraZeneca unite to fight cancer & lupus. Hear inspiring survivor stories and learn about early ...

Many medical organizations have been recommending lung cancer screening for decades for those at high risk of developing the disease. But in 2022, less than 6% of people in the U.S. eligible for ...

Over the past 30 years, cancer deaths have decreased by 34% in the United States. Although the United States accounts for 1 ...

But the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which has slightly different recommendations than the society does, doesn’t think the evidence for this is strong enough.

nearly seven times higherthan lung cancer that has spread in the body. Between 2015 and 2019, survival rates for lung cancer have improved by 22%, in part because of an increase in earlier diagnosis.