Research Blogs

Read time: 3 minutes. Editors Note: If you missed the 2024 International Lung Cancer Survivorship Conference (ILCSC), make sure to join our email list and be the first to know when

Read time: 2 minutes. Traditionally, people associate getting involved in lung cancer research with enrolling in a clinical trial. But most don’t realize they can also partner with

Read time: 4 minutes Lung cancer is often first identified as a nodule during a routine lung cancer screening or when someone is getting a chest scan for another reason, such as

Read time: 8 minutes Thousands of oncologists, scientists, biotech and pharmaceutical representatives, patients, and advocates (including LUNGevity staff) met to discuss lifesaving

Read time: 2 minutes The question of whether lung cancer is hereditary is becoming increasingly important in the lung cancer community. While the average age of lung cancer

Read time: 4 minutes Young adults (less than 50 years of age) are being diagnosed with lung cancer at increasing rates. They tend to be women of Hispanic or Asian descent and are

Read time: 4 minutes Lung cancers that test positive for the RET biomarker are often treated with targeted therapy. While this type of treatment has improved the duration and

Read time: 4 minutes Advances in targeted therapies have allowed us to treat some types of lung cancer with mutations in specific genes (for example, EGFR, KRAS, and RET). This has

Research and treatment updates from the 2024 American Association for Cancer Research meeting—NSCLC, SCLC, ALK, EGFR, RET, KRAS, MET, Immunotherapy.

Read time: 4 minutes Lung cancer screening guidelines were first issued by the United States Preventive Services Task Force in 2013 to help doctors find lung cancer in its earliest

An update on our work investigating cachexia as well as the announcement of five new Cancer Grand Challenge teams and their projects.

New research is looking into why so many young adults are being diagnosed with lung cancer and if there is a genetic component increasing their risk.