For decades, lung cancer has been associated with stigma, anxiety, and loss. Advances in screening, therapeutics, and survivorship have created a new reality; lung cancer is treatable, survivable, and ...
OPINION: Stanford Dr. Bryant Lin is both a patient and an advocate in yet another vexing health care problem: insurance ...
Scientists at NYU Langone discovered that blocking a key protein that shields cancer cells from a natural stress-driven death process can dramatically slow lung tumor growth.
Pancreatic cancer is projected to be the second leading cause of cancer deaths by 2030, but experts say Ireland is failing patients with the disease ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
In the US, lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men and women – and also the leading cause of cancer death in both. In fact, the number of deaths from lung cancer surpass the next ...
If you head down to the National Mall over the next two weeks, you’ll notice 60,000 white and American flags blanketing the lawn in front of the Capitol. It is an installation that hopes to hammer ...
It’s ah-choo much for the body to handle. Viral infections like the flu and COVID-19 can “awaken” dormant breast cancer cells hiding in the lungs, paving the way for deadly metastatic disease, a new ...
Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), and Utrecht University have found what they suggest is the first direct ...
Prior to the study, some evidence suggested that inflammatory processes can awaken disseminated cancer cells (DCCs)—cells that have broken away from a primary tumor and spread to distant organs, often ...
Respiratory viruses may activate the growth of dormant cancer cells that have spread to the lungs from elsewhere in the body. Infections like flu seem to spark an inflammatory response that helps the ...