RESEARCH BLOG Blogs

Read time: 2 minutes. The likelihood of surviving five years or more after a lung cancer diagnosis is 27%. 1 But if it is caught early, before spreading, the five-year survival

Read time: 6 minutes. Over the past 20 years, researchers have made tremendous strides in the early detection and treatment of lung cancer—early detection chest scans for high-risk

Read time: 4 minutes. As a dedicated researcher and oncologist, Noura Choudhury, MD, at the University of Chicago, witnesses daily the urgent need for better treatments for lung

Read time: 3 minutes. When Erin Schenk, MD, PhD, began her journey as a junior faculty member at the University of Colorado, she treated patients with various types of lung cancer

Read time: 9 minutes. The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) once again brought together nearly 50,000 members of the oncology community. From May

Read time: 2 minutes. When a person is treated for advanced-stage lung cancer, tumors will often shrink, and their symptoms may subside. An effective treatment will kill many tumor

Read time: 4 minutes. As the nation’s leading lung cancer nonprofit and member of the Cancer Grand Challenges Cachexia Team, LUNGevity has been working to improve our understanding

Read time: 3 minutes. Why did we build a tool to visualize data collected from patients and caregivers? Community members provide data but too often never see how their data was

Read time: 9 minutes. More than 22,000 cancer researchers from 81 countries got together for the annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting in Chicago from

Read time: 3 minutes. RET proteins are a type of receptor tyrosine kinase—an important group of signaling molecules in healthy cells. When RET proteins are turned “on” and “off” in

Read time: 6 minutes. The research community is finally beginning to gain traction and make real progress in treating small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The SCLC Hot Topic Meeting

Read time: 2 minutes. Here we present the final video in our three-part series about how patients and researchers can work together to develop clinical trials. In the video below