From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought ...

Sometimes, lung cancer comes back after you’ve had treatment. This is called a recurrence. It can happen at any time or not at all. But lung cancer is most likely to return within 5 years after ...

A graph I saw in high school appeared to show the Earth breathing. It was a graph that plotted carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. CO₂ had ...

Part of the diagnostic process may involve confirming the specific type of emphysema that is affecting your lungs. While PLE affects all lobes of the lungs, the others impact other tissues ...

An itching sensation in your lungs is often the result of irritation from allergies or environmental triggers. But it can also be a symptom of an underlying condition, like asthma, that requires ...

product use–associated lung injury (EVALI). Among the 1139 patients with EVALI discharged on or before October 31, 2019, 31 (2.7%) were rehospitalized a median of 4 days after discharge and with ...

It has grown into the chest wall lining or the tissues surrounding the heart, or there are at least two separate tumors in one lobe of the affected lung. Distant regions of the body are not affected.

Lung cancer survival rates can be as high as 98% for certain cancers diagnosed in an early stage, and as low as 4% for those diagnosed with more aggressive cancers in advanced stages. Survival rates ...

Structural Genomics Consortium, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States Department of Pharmacology, University of ...