Lung Cancer News

As telemedicine use increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, Black patients with cancer had lower usage levels than white patients, according to study results presented during a virtual press briefing ahead of the ASCO Annual Meeting.

ASCO and the Association of Community Cancer Centers have jointly developed recommendations for improving equity, diversity and inclusion in cancer clinical trials.

Despite a decrease in cancer mortality among Black individuals between 1999 and 2019, cancer death rates remained highest among Black men and women compared with any other racial and ethnic group.

The expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act correlated with an increase in 2-year OS rates among patients newly diagnosed with cancer, according to study results published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The body has 25 types of functional bitter taste receptors, but tasting is not their only function.

A substantial proportion of patients with resected early non-small cell lung cancer who consented to an adjuvant therapy screening trial did not receive adequate lymph node dissection or adjuvant chemotherapy, according to study results.

In this edition, early lung cancer detection improves survival rates; incidental respiratory findings on low-dose CT lung cancer screening common; certain patients may derive more benefit from immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer and more.

Entrectinib demonstrated durable systemic and intracranial responses in patients with NTRK fusion-positive solid tumors, according to study results published in Clinical Cancer Research.

Although most cancer centers may not screen every patient at every visit, I believe in it whole-heartedly, and this is what we do at Rush University. If we believe in the value of asking patients how they are doing, it’s hard to justify excluding certain visits from this practice, particularly considering we aren’t very good about predicting when any individual patient might be struggling.

Studies consistently have shown patients with cancer have a higher risk for suicide than the general public.