Although smoking is the biggest culprit in the development of lung cancer, recent studies have shown that other factors, like common viruses, may affect a person’s likelihood of developing the disease. This finding was a …

It’s seemed such a mystery why some cigarette smokers develop lung cancer while others smoke all their lives and never develop the disease. Researchers studying the human genome may have finally solved that mystery.

A multinational study of the effects of smoking cigarettes on the people of China has led to the alarming conclusion that smokers face serious risk of stroke, with the risk increasing the longer and heavier …

According to a study published in the March issue of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vitamin E can increase the risk of developing lung cancer. The study …

A study released this week by the American Cancer Society outlined disturbing differences in survival rates among insured versus uninsured patients. The study, which appears in the March issue of The Lancet Oncology, is the …