Lung Cancer News

November 20, 2024

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Combination Approach Shows Promise for Treating Rare, Aggressive Cancers

Nov. 12, 2024 — A research team has shown that that combining pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug, with standard chemotherapy can improve treatment outcomes for patients with small cell bladder cancer and small cell/neuroendocrine prostate ...

Scientists Use Microcellular Drones to Deliver Lung Cancer-Killing Drugs

Nov. 11, 2024 — Extracellular vesicles (EVs) loaded with customizable anti-cancer antisense oligonucleotides suppressed cancer ...

Researchers Uncover New Role of Mutant Proteins in Some of the Deadliest Cancers

Nov. 11, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new way in which RAS genes, which are commonly mutated in cancer, may drive tumor growth beyond their well-known role in signaling at the cell surface. Mutant RAS, they ...

Detecting Evidence of Lung Cancer in Exhaled Breath

Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early diagnoses -- and improve patients' prospects. Researchers ...

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Researchers Identify Key Mechanism in Human Lung Development

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The results of the study, which used organoids derived from embryonic lungs, open up new perspectives ...

Study Links Methylmalonic Acid to Weakening of Immune Cells in Lung Cancer

Oct. 31, 2024 — A new study has found a surprising link between high levels of methylmalonic acid and the weakening of CD8+ T cells, shedding light on potential pathways through which aging may promote lung cancer ...

Dual Immunotherapy Plus Chemotherapy Benefits Specific Subset of Patients With Lung Cancer

Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring specific mutations in the STK11 ...

Scientists Discover That Special Immune Cells Stop Metastatic Cancer

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a natural immune mechanism in mice that stops escaped cancer cells from developing into tumors elsewhere in the ...

Drug Improves Effectiveness of Radiation for Lung Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain

Oct. 4, 2024 — The University of Cincinnati's Debanjan Bhattacharya is first author of new research published in Cancers that found the drug AM-101 improves the ...

Combination Treatment Improves Response to Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer

Sep. 25, 2024 — Researchers have tested a combination of treatments in mice with lung cancer and shown that these allow immunotherapies to target non-responsive ...

Experimental mRNA Cancer Vaccine Shows Potential for Advanced Stage Cancer Patients in Phase 1 Trial

Sep. 13, 2024 — Interim data from the Phase I dose escalation part of the mRNA cancer immunotherapy (mRNA-4359), show promise in patients with advanced solid ...

BMI's Relation to Cancer Therapy Mortality Risks Not So Straightforward

Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers examined the impact of obesity in relation to treatment and mortality from data on over 500,000 lung cancer patients. This study suggests that immunotherapy may not be the optimal ...

Artificial Intelligence Improves Lung Cancer Diagnosis

Aug. 23, 2024 — A team of researchers has created a digital pathology platform based on artificial intelligence. The platform uses new algorithms developed by the team and enables fully automated analysis of tissue ...

Diabetes Drug Reduces Drug Resistance in Lung Cancer, Improving Chemotherapy Effectiveness

July 17, 2024 — A medication used to treat diabetic neuropathy may make chemotherapy treatments more effective for patients with lung cancer, according to new ...

New, Rare Type of Small Cell Lung Cancer Identified

Sep. 11, 2024 — A team of doctors and researchers have identified a new, rare type of small cell lung cancer that primarily affects younger people who have never ...

New Study Finds 40-Percent of Cancer Cases and Almost Half of All Deaths in the US Linked to Modifiable Risk Factors

July 11, 2024 — A new study finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 cancer cases and 262,120 cancer deaths in 2019) ...

Nano-Immunotherapy Developed to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment

June 14, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new nanomedicine therapy that delivers anticancer drugs to lung cancer cells and enhances the immune system's ability to fight cancer. The team showed promising ...

Ultrasensitive Liquid Biopsy Tech Spots Cancer Earlier Than Standard Methods

June 14, 2024 — An artificial intelligence-powered method for detecting tumor DNA in blood has shown unprecedented sensitivity in predicting cancer recurrence. The new technology has the potential to improve cancer ...

Why Many Lung Cancer Patients Who Have Never Smoked Have Worse Outcomes

June 13, 2024 — The reason why targeted treatment for non-small cell lung cancer fails to work for some patients, particularly those who have never smoked, has been ...

Artificial Intelligence Blood Test Provides a Reliable Way to Identify Lung Cancer

June 6, 2024 — Using artificial intelligence technology to identify patterns of DNA fragments associated with lung cancer, researchers have developed and validated a liquid biopsy that may help identify lung cancer ...

Lung Cancer Study Offers Further Evidence on Importance of Screening

May 21, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated the benefits of lung cancer screening across socioeconomic groups. Evidence in the new study illustrates the value and importance of screening, especially for those who ...

Pre And Post-Surgical Immunotherapy Improves Outcomes for Patients With Operable Lung Cancer

May 15, 2024 — Compared with pre-surgical (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy alone, adding perioperative immunotherapy -- given before and after surgery -- significantly improved event-free survival (EFS) in patients with ...

Nanoparticle Delivery of FZD4 to Lung Endothelial Cells Inhibits Lung Cancer Progression and Metastases

Apr. 16, 2024 — A recent breakthrough study has shown potential to improve therapeutic outcomes for patients suffering from lung ...

Colorless, Odorless Gas Likely Linked to Alarming Rise in Non-Smoking Lung Cancer

Apr. 11, 2024 — Although lung cancer is traditionally thought of as a 'smoker's disease,' a surprising 15-20% of newly diagnosed lung cancers occur in people who have never smoked, many of whom are in ...

Genetically Engineered Dendritic Cells Enhance the Power of Immunotherapy Against Lung Cancer

Mar. 26, 2024 — A new study suggest that using CXCL9 and CXCL10-producing dendritic cells alongside immunotherapy can be a promising strategy to overcome treatment resistance and improve clinical outcomes for ...

AI May Predict Spread of Lung Cancer to Brain

Mar. 11, 2024 — Scientists trained a machine-learning algorithm to predict accurately brain metastasis using biopsy samples from early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients. It was also highly accurate in ...

Study Unravels the Earliest Cellular Genesis of Lung Adenocarcinoma

Feb. 28, 2024 — Researchers built a new atlas of lung cells, uncovering new cellular pathways and precursors in the development of lung adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer. These findings open the ...

Genetic Signature May Predict Response to Immunotherapy for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Feb. 23, 2024 — A new study identified a set of 140 genes that may help predict enhanced disease-free survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with a combination of immunotherapy and ...

Study Finds New Inhalable Therapy Is a Big Step Forward in Lung Cancer Research

Feb. 15, 2024 — Biomedical engineers have developed a technique that uses inhalation of exosomes, or nanobubbles, to directly deliver IL-12 mRNA to the lungs of ...

Scientists Discover Hidden Army of Lung Flu Fighters

Feb. 14, 2024 — Scientists have long thought of the fluid-filled sac around our lungs merely as a cushion from external damage. Turns out, it also houses potent virus-eating cells that rush into the lungs during flu ...

How One Type of Lung Cancer Can Transform Into Another

Feb. 8, 2024 — Lung tumors called adenocarcinomas sometimes respond to initially effective treatments by transforming into a much more aggressive small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that spreads rapidly and has few ...

Lung Cancer Hijacks Immune Cell Metabolism to Fuel Its Own Growth

Feb. 7, 2024 — Scientists discovered a novel self-perpetuating cancer mechanism in the lung microenvironment, wherein EGFR-driven lung adenocarcinoma cells exploit lung-resident macrophages -- remodeling them to ...

Liquid Biopsy Predicts Immunotherapy Response and Toxicity in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer

Dec. 12, 2023 — By monitoring changes in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) among 30 patients treated with immunotherapies for metastatic non-small cell lung cancers, researchers were able to determine molecular response ...

A Type of Allergy Medicine Might Help Treat Lung Cancer

Dec. 6, 2023 — Researchers have identified an allergy pathway that, when blocked, unleashes antitumor immunity in mouse models of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). And in an early parallel study in humans, ...