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Lung Cancer News

Blood Test to Identify Individuals for Lung Cancer Screening A simple biomarker test shows promise for refining the eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening, identifying more high-risk individuals for low-dose CT and reducing false positives.
Medscape Medical News, July 16, 2018
Proton Therapy Trials 'at Risk,' Slow to Enroll Patients Is proton therapy better than standard radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer? Seven major randomized clinical trials have no answers at this point.
Medscape Medical News, July 12, 2018

Geriatric Assessments Could Fine-Tune Cancer Care for Older Adults
Kaiser Health News, July 5, 2018
ASCO 2018 'Cancer Is Almost Always a Crisis'
Medscape Medical News, July 5, 2018
AstraZeneca Wins Speedy Approvals for Cancer Drugs in Japan
Reuters Health Information, July 5, 2018
Tokyo Passes Tough Anti-Smoking Law Ahead of 2020 Olympics
Reuters Health Information, June 27, 2018

Lung Cancer Perspective

In NSCLC, Immunotherapy Evolving to Become First-Line Treatment Thoracic oncologist Dr Jack West interprets the most important advanced lung cancer trials from ASCO 2018, including the 'sleeper' KEYNOTE-407 trial.
Medscape Oncology, June 25, 2018
ASCO Data Establish Chemo-IO as Mainstay Frontline for NSCLC Dr Jack West moderates a panel discussion with Drs Josh Bauml and Sandip Patel on the most important lung cancer trials at ASCO 2018, with a focus on chemo-immunotherapy combinations.
Medscape Oncology, June 21, 2018

Tumor Mutation Burden as Biomarker: All-Systems-Go or Too Early?
Medscape Oncology, June 21, 2018
Lung Cancer: Immuno Plus
Medscape TV, June 20, 2018
Clinical Pathways: Many Potential Benefits but 'More Work to Do'
Medscape Oncology, June 20, 2018
Top News From ASCO 2018: Slideshow
Medscape News Slideshows, June 15, 2018

Journals

Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Newly Diagnosed Lung Cancer
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, July 12, 2018
Complex Glandular Patterns in Lung Adenocarcinoma
American Journal of Clinical Pathology, July 10, 2018
92-Gene Assay for Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary
JCO Precision Oncology, July 9, 2018
Telerehabilitation for Chronic Respiratory Disease
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, July 5, 2018
Eliminating the Age Cutoff in Staging of Thyroid Cancer
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, July 2, 2018

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