Lung Cancer
News
Most common cancer diagnosis globally: Breast surpasses lung
News
Patients with lung and blood cancers most vulnerable to COVID-19
News
Rechallenge ‘reasonable’ for some with small-cell lung cancer
Carboplatin plus etoposide significantly prolonged progression-free survival, compared with topotecan, in patients with advanced or relapsed,...
News
Lung cancer CT scan is chance for ‘opportunistic’ osteoporosis check
"CT provides a more direct volumetric measure [than DXA] and is likely a more accurate method for BMD assessment," one expert says.
News
Black patients with ES-SCLC get less chemo but have better survival
Conference Coverage
Immune checkpoint inhibitors don’t increase COVID-19 incidence or mortality, studies suggest
Cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors are not significantly more likely to develop or die from COVID-19, two studies suggest...
News
50.6 million tobacco users are not a homogeneous group
Traditional cigarettes are the still the most popular choice, but young adults prefer the electronic variety.
Article
Using telehealth to deliver palliative care to cancer patients
Dr. Alan Lyss discusses the use of telehealth for palliative cancer care, including results from the REACH PC trial.
News
One-month delay in cancer treatment linked to increase in mortality
The risk of death varied by treatment type.
Article
Guideline Concordance with Durvalumab in Unresectable Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Single Center Veterans Hospital Experience
A retrospective review of use of durvalumab use among patients with NSCLC found that just one-third of eligible veteran patients actually received...