Lung Cancer News

Individuals who increased alcohol consumption had higher risks for both alcohol-associated and all cancer types, according to results of a Korean population-based cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

In this video, Narjust Florez (Duma), MD, spoke with Healio about the prevalence of sexual dysfunction among women with lung cancer and the importance of including sexual health in oncology care.

In this video, Jia Luo, MD, discusses two presentations from International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer investigating treatments for KRAS G12C lung cancer.

Certain patient demographics, including race and ethnicity and underlying primary malignant neoplasm, appeared associated with delays in cancer treatment among patients with COVID-19.

Oncology wasn’t the first love of Matthew D. Garrett, MD.

In this video, Jia Luo, MD, spoke with Healio about results from her study on the safety of biopsies presented at International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Rates for CV admissions among patients with cancer has increased, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes.Primary CV admissions are highest among patients with hematological cancer with the most common cause of admission being heart failure, according to the study.

Informed consent forms for interventional oncology clinical trials are often lengthy and written at too high of a reading level for some patients, making it hard for them to weigh the decision to participate, according to study results.

Younger adults with lung cancer had a higher likelihood of having late-stage disease at diagnosis than older adults, according to study results.

About 15% of a large cohort of patients with lung cancer had pathogenic germline variants, nearly all of which could be clinically actionable, according to study results presented during an ASCO Plenary Series session.