Lung Cancer

In this video, Hina Khan, MD, shares tips for how to maximize your time at the ASCO Annual Meeting, taking place June 3-7 in Chicago.

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.

Use of proton beam therapy increased significantly among patients with cancer in the U.S. between 2004 and 2018, but Black individuals had a lower likelihood of receiving the therapy than their white counterparts.

A randomized phase 3 trial designed to evaluate tiragolumab plus atezolizumab for certain patients with advanced lung cancer failed to meet its co-primary endpoint of PFS, topline data showed.

Esophageal-sparing intensity-modulated radiotherapy did not significantly improve esophageal quality of life but reduced incidence of symptomatic esophagitis among patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.