Small-cell lung cancer is a highly malignant form of lung cancer, also known as oat-cell carcinoma, that accounts for approximately 15% of lung cancer cases. Composed of small, ovoid cells with ...

Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring specific mutations in the STK11 and/or KEAP1 tumor suppressor ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women. Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC ... to find lung cancer when they do an X-ray for something else. When present, symptoms ...

EGFR-positive lung cancer is a type of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It can cause symptoms such as breathing problems and hoarseness. Therapy that targets the mutation, such as EGFR ...

Median survival is the amount of time at which 50% of people with a condition 50% are still alive and 50% have died. There are two basic types of lung cancer: small cell (SCLC), the most aggressive ...

Jiang Yanyi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered an important mechanism that enables squamous ... samples, cancer cell lines, and ...

Mohs surgery was associated with improved outcomes compared with wide local excision (WLE) in patients with primary high-stage cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), showing lower rates of ...

I order both tissue and liquid [NGS] at the same time at the time of diagnosis. Qiwei Gai, MD, PhD: In my hospital, my pathologists order Caris testing for all the [patients with] adenocarcinoma lung ...

Lung disease is a general term for several disorders that include airway diseases, lung tissue diseases, and lung circulation diseases, some of which may lead to respiratory failure. During the ...

analyzed global trends in four main lung cancer subtypes: adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, small-cell carcinoma and large-cell carcinoma. They found that adenocarcinoma has been the most ...

This designation applies to the treatment of unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (sqNSCLC) that has progressed following anti-PD-(L) immune checkpoint ...

Stage 4 cancer means cancer cells have spread to distant tissue or organs. The relative 5-year survival rate for a person receiving a diagnosis of stage 4 small cell lung cancer (SCLS) is 3%, and ...