Surgeons at Chicago's Northwestern Medicine gave Mandy Wilk, a cancer patient, a first-of-its-kind double lung transplant.

The investigational mRNA cancer immunotherapy is ... Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers examined the impact of obesity in relation to treatment and mortality from data on over 500,000 lung cancer patients.

Doctors may recommend follow-ups or surgery for large nodules, especially if you are at a high risk of developing lung cancer. This article reviews lung nodule sizes and recommended treatments.

When lung cancer spreads beyond the lungs, it usually first affects nearby lymph nodes. But doctors don’t usually consider lung cancer to be “metastatic” until it has spread to more distant ...

including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, asthma, interstitial lung disease, bronchiectasis, benign and malignant neoplasms, and lung transplantation. The Lung ...

It works by presenting the immune system with tumour markers from non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of the disease, to prime the body to fight cancer cells expressing these markers.

NHS chiefs have been urged to reverse their decision to reject a breakthrough lung cancer drug that slashes the chance of the disease returning by a third. Durvalumab has been shown in trials to ...

A 67-year-old London man with lung cancer has been the first to receive a new cancer vaccine as part of an international trial. The early-stage research will test the immune therapy’s safety and ...

The first vaccine that aims to kill the most common form of lung cancer and keep it from coming back is being tested in Maryland and Virginia as part of a global clinical trial. Known as BNT116 ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully performed a “first-of-its-kind” double-lung transplant on a cancer patient who was told she had limited time left to live.

Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers investigated differences in T-cell responses between male and female patients with lung cancer that may help direct future treatments. ... Low Oxygen Levels in Tumors ...