Cigarette smoking is by far the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, data shows — but in a surprising turn of events, the most common form of the disease is primarily found in non-smokers.

Lung cancer is a women’s health disease, but we clearly need to educate more people about it,” said Dr. Andrea McKee, a radiation oncologist and volunteer medical spokesperson for the American ...

Getting it after surgery or on its own could slow your cancer's growth or stop it from coming back. But radiation to the chest might also raise your odds of lung cancer down the road, especially ...

Only a fraction of people at high risk for lung cancer are getting screened for the disease even though it kills more in the United States than breast, colorectal and prostate cancers combined.

Lung cancer is not rare. It was the most common cancer diagnosis in 2022—and the deadliest, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Despite its frequency, there are still ...

Lung cancer is hardly what comes to mind when you experience back pain. However, evidence indicates that the back is one of the most common sites in the body where people with lung cancer ...

For the past six years, Elyssa Barbaro has gotten screened for lung cancer. The 71-year-old New Yorker smoked for about 50 years, but she doubts she would have gotten an annual preventative CT ...