Lung Cancer News

April 12, 2025

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One in 3,000 People at Risk of Punctured Lung from Faulty Gene -- Almost 100 Times Higher Than Previous Estimate

Apr. 7, 2025 — As many as one in 3,000 people could be carrying a faulty gene that significantly increases their risk of a punctured lung, according to new estimates. Previous estimates had put this risk closer to ...

Master Regulator Blocking Immunotherapy, Paving the Way for a New Lung Cancer Treatment

Apr. 9, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that 'DEAD-box helicases 54 (DDX54)', a type of RNA-binding protein, is the master regulator that hinders the effectiveness of immunotherapy -- opening a new path for lung ...

Rates of Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening Nearly Four-Fold Higher Than Lung Cancer Screening Among Those Eligible

Apr. 2, 2025 — Lung cancer screening has the potential to catch lung cancer early and save lives -- but only if people get screened. Although lung cancer screening is recommended in the U.S. for certain individuals ...

A Post-Treatment Blood Test Could Inform Future Cancer Therapy Decisions

Mar. 17, 2025 — In the continuing evolution of personalized medicine, a new study has found evidence to support the value of a tool that measures the presence of cancer-derived molecules in the blood of patients with lung cancer years after their treatment. This ...

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Eat Better, Breathe Easier? Research Points to Link Between Diet, Lung Cancer

Mar. 13, 2025 — A new study shows how the lungs respond to poor ...

How Our Lungs Back Up the Bone Marrow to Make Our Blood

Feb. 27, 2025 — Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

Lung Cancer Cells Can Go 'Off Grid'

Feb. 12, 2025 — Researchers have found that some particularly aggressive lung cancer cells can develop their own electric network, like that seen in the body's nervous ...

Research Pinpoints Weakness in Lung Cancer's Defenses

Feb. 10, 2025 — Scientists uncover an enzyme that boosts cancer cell metabolism to fuel growth. The enzyme, GUK1, supports metabolism in cancer cells to help tumors ...

New Screening Device Shows Promise for Early Lung Cancer Detection

Feb. 6, 2025 — Scientists have created a new low-cost, fast response sensor to detect lung cancer biomarkers, paving the way for the development of screening devices to spot the disease even before symptoms occur. ...

Tumor DNA in the Blood Can Predict Lung Cancer Outcome

Jan. 13, 2025 — Scientists have found that a test to detect circulating tumor DNA can predict lung cancer ...

Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival in Early Stages Better Than Current Methods

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have shown that a test called ORACLE can predict lung cancer survival at the point of diagnosis better than currently used clinical risk ...

A New Turning Point in Lung Cancer Treatment, Inspired by Mussels

Jan. 9, 2025 — Scientists have developed inhalable lung cancer therapeutics utilizing mucoadhesive proteinic ...

Lighting Up Cancer Cells With Biolasers

Jan. 6, 2025 — Researchers have developed a way of detecting circulating tumor cells in the bloodstream of pancreatic cancer and lung cancer ...

Scientists Develop Scans That Light-Up Aggressive Cancer Tumors for Better Treatment

Dec. 17, 2024 — Researchers have used a chemical compound to light up treatment-resistant cancers on imaging scans, in a breakthrough that could help medical ...

In Five Cancer Types, Prevention and Screening Have Been Major Contributors to Saving Lives

Dec. 5, 2024 — Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study. The study ...

Cancer Risk Declines in Old Age, Research Helps Explain Why

Dec. 4, 2024 — A laboratory study provides evidence about how advanced age can be protective against cancer -- with implications for treating patients in different age ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and/or KEAP1 tumor suppressor genes were more ...

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 effectiveness and survival rate of radiation ...

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 cancers. The investigational mRNA cancer immunotherapy is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...