What is Cancer Cachexia?
This article is intended to be used for informational purposes and not to be taken as medical advice. The piece was reviewed for accuracy by Dr. Richard Dunne, MD, medical
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Exercise after Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery
53 days after Julie Jones had video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) to remove the lower lobe of her right lung, Julie ran a half marathon. Even more impressive, she finished only
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Lung Cancer Screening: What People Need to Know
According to the National Cancer Institute, approximately 70% of lung cancer patients are initially diagnosed with advanced-stage disease, which is more difficult to treat than
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Working Toward a Blood Test to Predict Immunotherapy Success
Immunotherapy, the treatment that harnesses the body’s natural defenses to fight disease, has helped patients, excited imaginations, and stimulated new avenues of research in lung -
Palliative Care: An Important Tool for Advanced-Stage Lung Cancer Patients
When Laura Petrillo, MD, meets an advanced-stage lung cancer patient for the first time, she begins by explaining what she does. As a palliative care physician at Massachusetts
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Looking for Biomarkers to Predict Response to Immunotherapy
Over the past several years, Jeffrey Thompson, MD, MS, watched eagerly as checkpoint inhibitors, immunotherapy drugs that take the brakes off the immune system to allow the body to -
Understanding the Important Role of Caregiving
Caregiving and the word burden are often put together, however, this is an unfortunate coupling of words. Cancer is a burdensome disease, the healthcare system is complex and
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Should Lung Cancer Patients Get Flu Shots?
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in 2019. Updates were made and additional questions answered in 2020. Flu vaccinations are the best way to help protect against
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The Importance of Screening for Lung Cancer
Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and worldwide. Because cancer treatments are most effective when the cancer is caught early
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A New Non-Invasive Molecular Approach to Monitoring Patient Response During Immunotherapy
Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy uses drugs to take the brakes off a patient’s immune system so that the immune cells can then recognize and attack tumor cells. However, the -
The Impact of the LUNGevity Career Development Award
Dr. Lauren Byers is a rising star in the field of lung cancer research. Her research findings into treatments for patients with small cell lung cancer are bringing new excitement -
Meet Your Medical Team: Registered Dietician
Angie Lord, RD, RYT-200, is the oncology dietitian at the Inova Alexandria Hospital location of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute. She has been a dietitian for over 15 years in