About 1 in 5 people around the world will develop cancer throughout the course of their lives, and the number of cancer cases ...

Cigarette smoking is by far the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, data shows — but in a surprising turn of events, the most common form of the disease is primarily found in non-smokers.

Early diagnosis of lung cancer may improve the prognosis, but many people aren’t aware they have it until it spreads. Screening tests may help detect the disease. Blood tests are not yet ...

Lung cancer deaths cut in half with AstraZeneca ... She is co-author of three books: “The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic”; “Out of the Clouds: The Unlikely Horseman and ...

A few months later, she learned the mass was Stage 1 lung cancer. “I thought there would be a gazillion other illnesses that I might have to encounter in my future,” the now 43-year-old from ...

Lung cancer is not rare. It was the most common cancer diagnosis in 2022—and the deadliest, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Despite its frequency, there are still ...

Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

The proportion of people who have never smoked being diagnosed with lung cancer is rising, with new research pointing to air pollution as a growing contributor to lung cancer around the world.