Machine-learning models combining clinical data and chest CT report features can probabilistically classify lung cancer subtypes in patients presenting with synchronous brain metastases, potentially ...

C EGFR T790M gene variant face roughly 25 times the lung cancer risk of noncarriers, according to the largest-yet study of ...

A mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene is associated with a significantly increased risk for lung cancer, with the risk higher in never ...

Lung cancer is so closely associated with smoking that people who have never smoked may assume their risk is extremely low.

Cobas EGFR Mutation Test v2 sits on a steel lab bench, next to a rack of faintly pink plasma samples and a humming cobas 4800 analyzer. A lab tech in Chicago told me she likes watching the small ...

Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked. In a new study published in Science, ...

When Jeanne Szurek, 69, was diagnosed with stage IV epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-positive lung cancer in 2024, she wondered if her two adult children were at a higher risk of developing the ...

"Clinicians performing tumor biopsy need to ensure that there’s adequate tissue for both diagnosis and NGS testing. Having immediate pathology review of biopsy specimens in the operating room can ...

Significant advances have taken place in the management of patients with advanced and metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) over the last 5 years. Traditionally, all advanced NSCLC patients ...

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) guidelines all ...