Temple Health leads research showing how women and non-smokers face rising risks, and how new treatments are changing the ...

The typical patient diagnosed with lung cancer—an older male smoker—is becoming less common, according to experts.

Around 20% of women with lung cancer have never smoked. Mallika Wiriyathitipirn/EyeEm via Getty Images When many people think of an average lung cancer patient, they often imagine an older man smoking ...

Dd you know estrogen and progesterone have a bearing on the nature of the female lung reaction to disease and to ...

Research from the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center shows lung cancer is being diagnosed more and more in ...

In fact, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women, and more women die from lung cancer than breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer each year. The American Lung Association reports ...

Leslie Stoll was an active athlete who had never smoked. She was shocked when a chance scan spotted something unusual.

While scientists are still far from understanding the root causes behind most cancers, there are instances in which particular human behaviors have been linked to the development of specific ...

There was encouraging news last week, that, at long last, deaths related to lung cancer are going down significantly. However, in this week's Moves in Medicine, we look at the new challenge: Why are ...

For many years, lung cancer has had a reputation for being a man’s disease — a male smoker’s disease, specifically. While it remains more common in men, and most cases are still tied to smoking, in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who smoke are no more likely than men to get lung cancer but, among non-smokers, women appear to have a higher risk than men, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. Women ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Women may be especially susceptible to the toxic effects of cigarette smoking, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said women who smoke develop lung damage earlier in life than ...