Lung Cancer Stories
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval for Merck & Co's immunotherapy, Keytruda, in patients with a form of lung cancer.
- Roche hopes to get approval for a new drug that shrank tumors in 27 percent of people with medium to high levels of a protein that helps cancer evade the immune system.
- A new treatment for those with rare gastrointestinal tumors shows much promise for helping people live longer.
- Modern smoke is more dangerous than any in the past thanks to the materials we choose to use in our homes — here's what it's doing to our firefighters.
- Incense has been used for centuries, but what does the smoke actually do to our body?
- Each one percent decline in the total number of smokers comes with a 0.6 percent increase in the number of Americans trying to quit.
- Routine lung tests fail to detect disease in long-term smokers more than half the time.
- These five states have the highest cancer-related mortality rates in the nation, and quite a few things in common.
- National Cancer Survivors Day, which is intended to raise awareness of cancer patients' ongoing challenges, will be celebrated across the country this Sunday, June 7.
- A terminal lung cancer patient has sued the state of California to allow her to have the right to die on her her own terms.
- The Cuban lung cancer vaccine, Cimavax, has been approved to come to the U.S. to test how well it can treat and possibly prevent cancer.
- European health regulators have approved the Novartis' drug Zykadia to treat advanced lung cancer, the company said.