The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) confirms another immunotherapy treatment in combination with chemotherapy drugs is to be made available on NHS for patients with advanced lung cancer. The decision has been to…
New Study Could Help in Personalizing Lung Cancer Treatment
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have used highly sophisticated molecular analyzes for the purpose of identifying key proteins that signal pathways which lung cancer uses to spread in the body. The…
Researchers Link Genetic Mutations to Improved Outcomes in Lung Cancer Patients
Researchers have presented new findings related to lung cancer at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) conference in Barcelona, Spain. These new findings by Yale Cancer Center scientists have found that…
E-Sniffer to Predict Best Lung Cancer Treatment
The researchers have developed a novel device to distinguish between those who and will not respond to immunotherapy. They have reported in the Annals of Oncology that eNose was better at identifying…
Considering Unique Cancer Traits for Targeted Therapies
Lung cancer researchers Dr Kate Sutherland and Dr Sarah Best from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute led the research and it has been published in Nature Communications journal. They have discovered…
Capmatinib for Lung Cancer Granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation
Officials with the FDA have granted breakthrough therapy designation to Norvatis’ capmatinib therapy as an initial treatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Capmatinib is an oral investigational therapy. The research…
Back Pain – An Early Sign of Lung Cancer?
Lung Cancer is one of deadliest diseases and one of the major reasons behind it getting incurable is due to its recognition at a later stage. Most lung cancer symptoms are being…
Researchers Identify Possible New Lung Cancer Treatment
Lung cancer is the second most common form of lung cancer found in men and women. According to the latest statistics, around 228000 new lung cancer cases and nearly 30% of those…