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The proportion of people being diagnosed with lung cancer who have never smoked is increasing, according to a new study. The study — published Feb. 4 in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal ...
The American Cancer Society reported that women under 65 are getting cancer at higher rates. Breast cancer cases are the most common, but female lung cancer diagnoses are also soaring.
55-year-old Devonne Swift never smoked. After developing a persistent cough, she received a lifesaving early lung cancer diagnosis – all thanks to a new technology, robotic bronchoscopy.
The uncertainty of lung cancer prognosis often causes stress, and makes future planning difficult, for those with lung cancer and their families. [60] Those whose cancer goes into remission often experience fear of their cancer returning or progressing, associated with poor quality of life, negative mood, and functional impairment.
Unlike extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, limited-stage small cell lung cancer is potentially curable. [4] In limited small cell lung cancer, the median overall survival time is approximately 12–16 months, with five year survival rate of approximately 26% and long-term survival rate of approximately 4–5%. [19]
Signs and symptoms are not mutually exclusive, for example a subjective feeling of fever can be noted as sign by using a thermometer that registers a high reading. [7] Because many symptoms of cancer are gradual in onset and general in nature, cancer screening (also called cancer surveillance) is a key public health priority. This may include ...
More young and middle-aged women are being diagnosed with lung cancer at a higher rate than men, and scientists are struggling to understand why, new research shows. Awareness of the disease’s ...
This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2018 GLOBOCAN statistics and including all cancer types (some earlier statistics excluded non-melanoma skin cancer).