New Lung Cancer Treatments Aim to Reduce Deaths in 2025 and ...

Thoracic medical oncologist Dr. Mark Awad says new treatments for lung cancer include a growing number of targeted therapies and new forms of ...

How Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Treatment Is Improving

This kind of therapy activates the body's immune system to specifically kill cancer cells and is usually recommended for late-stage lung cancer.

Giorgio Scagliotti on Doubling the Lung Cancer Cure Rate by 2025

Giorgio V. Scagliotti, MD, PhD, on Doubling the Lung Cancer Cure Rate by 2025: A Realistic Goal. IASLC 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Singapore.

Pragmatica-Lung Study, a streamlined model for future cancer ...

That trial involved 136 patients with advanced NSCLC who had been previously treated with chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and it found evidence ...

12 new breakthroughs in the fight against cancer

A new trial giving cervical cancer patients a short course of chemotherapy before starting the standard treatment has cut the risk of death by ...

Newly approved drug effective against lung cancer caused by ...

The new drug sotorasib reduces tumor size and shows promise in improving survival among patients with lung tumors caused by a specific DNA mutation.

Lung Ambition Alliance launches with goal to double five-year ...

The first goal of the Alliance will be to double five-year survival for patients with lung cancer by 2025. Every 18 seconds, a life is lost to ...

Lung Ambition Alliance

AstraZeneca. Imfinzi demonstrated unprecedented survival in unresectable, Stage III lung cancer with 43% of patients surviving five years. Available at https:// ...

Cancer Moonshot | The White House

The Cancer Moonshot is mobilizing efforts toward achieving two clear goals that the President and First Lady set: To prevent more than 4 million cancer deaths ...

Opportunities for Achieving the Cancer Moonshot Goal of a 50 ...

Biden reignited the Cancer Moonshot, setting a new goal to reduce age-standardized cancer mortality rates by at least 50% over the next 25 years in the United ...

Pragmatica-Lung Study opens for patient enrollment - NCI

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has helped launch a phase 3 randomized clinical trial ...

Redefining lung cancer together - Roche

While the five-year survival rates remain woefully low, what we are seeing with the age of precision medicine is more treatment options being ...

The Effect of Advances in Lung-Cancer Treatment on Population ...

This greater reduction in mortality than in incidence during the more recent period translates into an estimated 6800 deaths from lung cancer ...

Projections of Lung Cancer Incidence by 2035 in 40 Countries ...

... aim of reducing the LC burden and promoting health equity [5]. Objective ... Number of new lung cancer cases and age-standardized incidence rates in lung cancer ...

About the National Lung Cancer Screening Program

Early diagnosis of lung cancer will mean reducing the number of patients requiring treatment for advanced stage lung cancer, when the survival ...

Lung cancer - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic

If surgery isn't an option, combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy may be your first treatment. For lung cancers that have spread to other ...

New cell-based immunotherapy offers hope for patients ... - OSUCCC

The current study is the first global phase 2 clinical trial to use this therapy against lung cancer, with patients in many hospitals across the ...

New Study Points to New Possibilities for Treating Lung Cancer ...

A new mouse study indicates that it is possible to reduce the risk of metastasis formation from lung cancer and improve the effectiveness of the medication ...

Advances in Lung Cancer Research - NCI

NCI-funded researchers are working to advance our understanding of how to prevent, detect, and treat lung cancer. In particular, scientists ...

Estimated impact of a tobacco-elimination strategy on lung-cancer ...

In sensitivity analyses, we estimated that 961 500 lung-cancer deaths could be prevented in this birth cohort if the effectiveness of smoking control was ...