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Powerful new immunotherapies are offering fresh hope for patients with many different types of cancer.
Unfortunately, that hope doesn’t extend to people without health insurance, a new study says.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are revolutionizing cancer treatment by helping the ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 9, 2025
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Two drugs used in lung cancer treatment appear to be tripping over each other, reducing patients’ chances for a cure, a new study says.
Corticosteroids are commonly prescribed to alleviate cancer-related symptoms in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, researchers said.
But these ster...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- July 8, 2025
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Wildfire smoke could make it harder for people with lung cancer to survive, a new study says.
Californians with lung cancer who breathed smoke from wildfires had a 20% increased risk of dying from their cancer, researchers reported Saturday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago.
Wildfire smoke contains particle pollution that can get d...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- June 2, 2025
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The timing of Cornelia Tischmacher’s pneumonia couldn’t have been worse -- eight months after the Berlin mom gave birth to twins.
But the pneumonia just wouldn’t go away, so Tischmacher went to a doctor in January 2018. Tests revealed that the then-40-year-old had stage 3 lung cancer...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 12, 2025
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Colonoscopy for younger adults. Chest CT scans for lung cancer. Statin meds to lower cholesterol. Screening for drug addiction.
More than 150 million Americans might lose no-cost access to these and other preventive care services under a case being heard Monday at the U.S. Supre...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 21, 2025
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Immunotherapy might help keep lung cancer at bay for months or even years after the treatment has been abandoned due to side effects, a new study says.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors essentially take the brakes off the immune system, giving it free reign to hunt down and kill cancer cells.
Unfortu...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 21, 2025
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Lung cancer screening can save the lives of former and current smokers, but most aren’t taking advantage of it, a new study says.
Fewer than 1 in 5 people eligible for lung cancer screening go through with a chest CT scan, according to research published April 2 in the
Tobacco control measures like anti-smoking campaigns and cigarette taxes have prevented nearly 4 million lung cancer deaths during the past five decades, a new American Cancer Society study estimates.
More than 3.8 million lung cancer deaths were averted due to substantial reductions in smoking, gaini...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 26, 2025
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More smokers are getting CT screenings for lung cancer, thanks to guideline changes that included younger people and those who’ve smoked less, a new study says.
However, significant gaps remain for these potentially life-saving scans, particularly among people with limited access to health care,...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 24, 2025
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Cancer screenings can save lives by detecting cancer early, when treatment is most effective.
With an estimated 2 million new cancer cases expected in 2025, regular screenings are more important than ever, according to the American Cancer Society.
February is National Cancer Prevention Month, which make...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- February 15, 2025
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Menthol cigarettes are under fire in the United States for promoting smoking among Black Americans, with a number of cities and states banning the smokes.
In response, the tobacco industry has come up with “menthol mimics” that imitate the cooling effect of menthol, and smokers are taking note of the innovation, a new study published Jan. 14 in
The lungs are a tempting place for cancer cells -- so much so that more than half of people with advanced cancer elsewhere in their bodies wind up with lung tumors.
Researchers now think they know why.
Elevated levels of an amino acid called aspartate appear to allow cancer cells to grow more easily inside the lungs, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 1 in the journal
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 3, 2025
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” founding father Benjamin Franklin once said.
That’s definitely true of cancer, a new study has found.
Cancer prevention and screening has saved more people from five types of cancer during the past 45 years than advances in tr...
Doctors have potent new weapons against the deadliest cancer in America and they want to make sure they're on the radar of current and former smokers.
"Lung cancer screening is the most powerful tool we have to lower cancer [deaths]," said
Already the go-to drug of choice for millions with type 2 diabetes, metformin might also fight lung cancer if those patients have it as well, new research shows.
Metformin appears to help boost the benefits of immunotherapy drugs used to fight lung tu...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 27, 2024
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a major tobacco company's challenge to a federal law that would mandate graphic images on cigarette packs.
Some of the proposed images include a woman with a large lump on her neck alongside the message "WARNING: Smoki...
More people with lung cancer are living longer, but it remains America's deadliest cancer, a new state-by-state report shows.
"There is more work to do, but I am incredibly optimistic about the future of lung cancer care," said Harol...
An experimental portable device might be able to detect lung cancer from a person’s exhaled breath, researchers report.
The device contains “nanoflake” sensors that can detect small changes in the gases exhaled by a person with lung cancer.
The sensors specifically look for min...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 7, 2024
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Having close family and friends who care about their health makes women more likely to get regularly screened for cancer, a new study has found.
Women are more likely to undergo regular cancer screening if they have a tighter web of social and emotional connections, researchers reported Oct. 17 in the journal Cancer Causes & Contro...
It’s never too late for a person to quit smoking, even if they’re elderly, a new study finds.
Dropping the smokes even as late as 75 can meaningfully increase a person’s life expectancy, researchers reported recently in the
Many nonsmokers have lung nodules that have been linked to lung cancer, a new study warns.
About 42% of nonsmokers or former smokers have at least one lung nodule, which is a small mass of dense tissue that may be cancerous, according to chest CT scans performed on more than 10,400 people aged 45 and ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 13, 2024
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New research suggests that switching from smoking to vaping won't prevent some dangerous changes to a person's genome.
A new study conducted in young adults shows similar cancer-linked gene changes in both vapers and smokers.
“These findings have significant...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- August 13, 2024
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Experts have long suspected it, but a new study confirms that folks who vape and smoke tobacco face higher risks for lung cancer than if they'd done either alone.
“From a public health perspective, we have always been concerned about dual-use of both traditional and e-cig products," said study lead author
Cancer rates are rising among Gen Xers and millennials, a new study reports.
Successively younger generations are more frequently being diagnosed half of the 34 known cancer types, researchers found.
For example, people born in 1990 have two to three times higher...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- August 1, 2024
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People who've had a history of smoking can get a lung cancer spotted early -- when it's most treatable -- through annual CT screening.
Unfortunately, most Americans polled in a new survey didn't know this potentially lifesaving screen exists.
“The survey shows that we have a significant a...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- August 1, 2024
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Lung cancer patients who underwent screening were more apt to be diagnosed at earlier stages and have better outcomes than patients who were not screened, new research shows.
The findings -- from a study of close to 58,000 patients diagnosed through the U.S. Veterans Health Administration -- underscore the importance of early detection...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- June 11, 2024
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Only a fraction of Americans are getting recommended lung cancer screenings, new research shows.
While rates overall are up slightly, fewer than 1 in 5 people who are eligible for screening are up-to-date with it, according to the American Cancer Society-led study.
The society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend a yearly computed tomography (CT) scan for peop...
- Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter
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- June 10, 2024
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Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can identify people who are at risk for lung cancer based on genetic markers in their blood.
"We have a simple blood test that could be done in a doctor's office that would tell patients whether they have potential signs of lung cancer and should get a follow-up CT scan," said corresponding author
If you've quit smoking and have switched to vaping instead, your odds for lung cancer won't fall as steeply as if you quit nicotine altogether, new research suggests.
"This is the first large population-based study to demonstrate the increased risk of lung cancer in e-c...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- May 21, 2024
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Immunotherapy can boost the survival of early-stage lung cancer patients eligible for surgery when it's combined with chemotherapy, a new clinical trial reports.
Those who got immunotherapy before and after surgery -- along with pre-surgical chemo -- had a 42% lower risk of cancer progression, recurre...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 16, 2024
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Chicago resident Arthur "Art"Gillespie fell ill in early March 2020 with COVID, after he and his father went to visit an uncle in a nursing facility.
"I was hospitalized for 12 days with a high fever and cough, and during that time, they were taking scans of my lungs, which showed stage 1 lung cancer on my right lung,"Gillespie, 56, recalled in a news release. "I had no symptoms of lung c...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 13, 2024
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Kentucky resident Chasity Harney embraced a thoroughly healthy lifestyle -- eating right, exercising and never touching tobacco.
So, her 2018 diagnosis of advanced lung cancer, which came at the age of 40, was a complete shock to both her and her family....
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 11, 2024
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As the world's population ages, a new report warns that the number of people with cancer could climb 77% by 2050.
In the report, published Thursday in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, researchers from the American Cancer Society found there were about 20 million cancer cases and ...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- April 5, 2024
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Dr. Gary Gibbon didn't have long to live.
A harsh cocktail of chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy for his advanced lung cancer had permanently destroyed his lungs and caused irreparable damage to his liver.
But Gibbon, a 69-year-old resident of Santa Monica,...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 28, 2024
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The last remnants of asbestos use in the United States have now been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency.
While the known carcinogen has already been largely banned, the EPA
Air pollution harms the health of everyone exposed to it, but a new study says communities of color are disproportionately harmed by dirty air.
Smog causes nearly 8 times higher childhood asthma rates and 1.3 times higher risk of premature death among minority communities compared to white communities, researchers found.
These elevated risks are a matter of geography, said study co-...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 6, 2024
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Black voters support a ban on menthol cigarettes by a wide margin, refuting claims that such a ban would be strongly opposed by Black Americans, a new survey shows.
Black voters support by a 37-point margin the menthol ban proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with 62% in favor and 25% against.
That's even greater than the 29-point margin by which all voters support the...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 23, 2024
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is cracking down on air pollution.
Specifically, the agency introduced a tougher air quality standard that takes aim at fine particulate matter -- the tiny bits of pollution that can penetrate the lungs -- by lowering the allowable annual concentration of the deadly pollutant that each state can have.
"This final air qua...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- February 9, 2024
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Deaths related to ozone air pollution will rise significantly around the world during the next two decades due to climate change, a new study warns.
Cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa can expect to see ozone-related deaths increase by as many as 6,200 fatalities a year by 2054 unless humans rein in global warming, researchers project.
"This paper is further ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 30, 2024
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The American Lung Association's annual report on smoking blasts President Joe Biden for failing to finalize rules that would end the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
Last month, the Biden administration announced it was delaying until March a ban on menthol cigarettes that has been in the works for years.
In response, the lung association's "State of Tobacco Control"r...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 24, 2024
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Cancer deaths continue to decline in the United States, with more than 4 million deaths prevented since 1991, a new report shows.
But more people are developing cancers than ever, making the dreaded disease a continued threat to human health, according to the new report
An American's income and ethnicity could play a role in how clean the air is that they breathe, a new study finds.
Air pollution emissions have fallen more in wealthier areas, and less in areas with larger Hispanic or American Indian populations.
Overall, U.S. air pollution emissions have decreased substantially, but the magnitude of the change varies based on demographics, the rese...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 17, 2024
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As more Americans with lung cancer gained access to quality care after passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), their post-surgical survival rates rose, new data shows.
The ACA (often called Obamacare) triggered the expansion of Medicaid coverage in many states. People with lung cancer who lived in states that took advantage of that move reaped a benefit, researchers found.
"This s...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 16, 2024
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Lung cancer patients who are unsuitable candidates for surgery may have a new, effective treatment option, researchers report.
In a small study -- just 28 patients -- investigators found that delivering higher but less frequent doses of radiation therapy, along with standard chemotherapy, upped survival rates in these cases.
"Our data shows patients may benefit from targeted, high-d...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 12, 2024
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The number of American teens who smoke or have even tried smoking has dropped dramatically compared to a generation ago, with less than 1% now saying they light up cigarettes daily.
Researchers tracked data on students in grades 9 through 12 from 1991 through to 2021. They report a 16-fold decline in daily cigarette use -- from 9.8% of teens saying they smoked daily in 1991 to just 0.6% b...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 10, 2024
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 3, 2024 -- Numerous studies have confirmed that annual lung cancer screening using CT scans does save lives.
However, new data has emerged showing that scans often pick up abnormalities that lead to follow-up invasive tests -- and more complications.
While no one is saying that all smokers and former smokers should skip lung CT scans, "real-world" complication rates ...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- January 3, 2024
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When it comes to the ultra-fine particles you may breathe in from polluted air, all is not created equal as it affects your health.
Fine particle pollutants known PM2.5 -- particles that are 2.5 microns or less in diameter -- appear to double the risk for premature death over time if they originate from coal-fired power plants versus other sources, a
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help assess lung cancer risk in nonsmokers, a new study shows.
The "CXR-Lung-Risk"AI program evaluates routine chest X-ray images, looking for patterns associated with lung cancer, researchers said.
People whose chest X-rays were flagged by the AI program had twice the risk of developing lung cancer as those whose images were deemed low-risk, accordi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 22, 2023
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