Research in PLoS Medicine shows that even light daily smoking raises major heart and death risks, while quitting early ...

For decades, lung cancer has been associated with stigma, anxiety, and loss. Advances in screening, therapeutics, and ...

Less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons in the United States are women. At a recent conference, they vowed to change that.

Radon exposure has a direct connection to lung cancer and is the second leading cause of lung cancer, behind smoking.

The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of ...

Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and ...

Women gain greater symptom relief than men after lung volume reduction, despite similar physical improvements.

AS noisy pigeons circle nearby, a ramshackle mobility scooter trundles along a street pockmarked with bin bags left out for ...

COPD, which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is progressive, meaning it gets worse over time without treatment.

A year after she quit smoking, Kim Swart thought the half-million cigarettes she smoked between high school and retirement ...

Those aged 46 and over need to focus on sleeping better to improve cardiovascular health outcomes after menopause, according ...

For Dusty Donaldson, one journey led to another. After navigating the emotional path of a lung cancer diagnosis, operation, chemotherapy and recovery, Donaldson decided to travel down another road.