After receiving a lung cancer diagnosis, Christy Erickson of Macon resolved to live out her fantasy of pulling a UPS truck in a Strongman competition. “Part of me just decided that I have to use the ...

According to reports by the World Health Organization (WHO), lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death globally, responsible for about 1.8 million deaths in 2022. In 2022, there were about 2.5 ...

Results from the Female Asian Nonsmoker Screening Study (FANSS) highlight the potential value of low-dose CT (LDCT) screening ...

Tania Rodrigues is part of a trend of people developing non-smoking lung cancer. Even though she has Stage 4, she's ...

TORONTO — Katie Hulan's family doctor thought she might have asthma. Her cough, which had started about a month and a half earlier, was getting progressively worse. So he gave her some puffers to try, ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

A meta-analysis of published epidemiological studies has found that exposure to second-hand smoke can significantly increase the risk of breast cancer in women who do not smoke. The study is published ...

Aug. 6, 2005 — -- In her West Bloomfield, Mich., home, Lisa Roffman wiped away tears as she read from a journal she keeps for her 9-year-old daughter, Leah. "You are a special gift to the world," ...

As Tania Rodrigues drove to work one morning in January 2024, something unusual happened with her vision. “All of a sudden, I was looking through a kaleidoscope or perhaps like a fly’s eye,” the ...

Katie Hulan, 37, is one of a growing number of non-smoking women doctors are seeing who have lung cancer. Hulan is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Mohammed Asaduallah ...