Higher cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with a lower risk for lung cancer incidence in former smokers and a reduced risk for cancer mortality in current smokers diagnosed with lung cancer.
Dietary fiber and yogurt consumption are associated with a reduced risk for lung cancer, according to a pooled analysis published in JAMA Oncology.
Electronic nose (eNose) technology, which uses several cross-reactive sensors that analyze a complete mixture of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath, may be useful for identifying patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are most likely to respond or not respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, study results in the Annals of Oncology suggest.…
Deep natural language processing may be able to estimate the presence of active cancer, cancer worsening or progression, and cancer improvement or response from radiologic reports.
Patients in higher quintiles of lung cancer risk had significantly more diagnoses of lung cancer.
Patient knowledge of eligibility criteria, benefits and harms of screening was improved.
The American Cancer Society says that such testing could cut mortality rate by 20%.
Significant prognostic factors include four factors from earlier index, as well as EGFR and ALK alterations.
