Lung cancer is much more prevalent in men than women, yet is still not being looked at as a women's health issue, Andrea Wolf says. Lung cancer among women who never smoked is twice as common than in ...

Background An asymptomatic 18-year-old female presented in December 2002 with a left pulmonary mass, and an enlarged mediastinum and left hilum, detected on a routine chest X-ray. She had never smoked ...

Female lung cancer survivors were, on average, 68 years of age, were white, had a high school education, were unmarried, lived with others, and were not employed outside the home (Table 1). Most had a ...

Laura Hamann's story is part of a growing trend that's changing everything you thought you knew about lung cancer.

Jeffrey Velotta, MD, FACS, attendee and presenter of CHEST Annual Meeting 2023, talks about the phenomenon of an increase in female, Asian, nonsmokers developing lung cancer, and what is being done to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Female patients whose lung cancer had pregnancy-specific glycoprotein expression had worse survival outcomes. A ...

Lung cancer can co-opt genes that normally help a fetus develop and evade the mother's immune system. And while these pregnancy-specific glycoproteins (PSGs) can get activated in the cancers of both ...

"Is lung cancer only for smokers?" This is one of the biggest misconceptions people have about lung cancer, which ranks first in cancer mortality. Moreover, in South Korea, where the perception of ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University in Japan have discovered that uric acid, an antioxidant, protects against declining lung function from age or lung disease, especially in women. High uric acid ...