Reuters - First-degree relatives of non-smoking individuals diagnosed with lung cancer have an increased likelihood of developing any type of cancer, researchers report.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that nicotine can cripple chemotherapy in lung cancer patients, even if it comes in a patch or gum designed to help a smoker quit the life-threatening habit.

Nicotine can prevent chemotherapy drugs such as taxol from killing lung cancer cells, researchers reported in a finding that may help explain why lung cancer is so difficult to treat in smokers. The findings may also suggest that even people...

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that nicotine can cripple chemotherapy in lung cancer patients, even if it comes in a patch or gum designed to help a smoker quit the life-threatening habit.

Reuters - Nicotine can prevent chemotherapy drugs such as taxol from killing lung cancer cells, researchers reported on Sunday in a finding that may help explain why lung cancer is so difficult to treat in smokers.

HealthDay - SUNDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary research suggests that nicotine can cripple chemotherapy in lung cancer patients, even if it comes in a patch or gum designed to help a smoker quit the life-threatening habit.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new test using mucus from deep in the lungs of people at high risk for lung cancer could help pinpoint who's most likely to develop the disease.

HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new test using mucus from deep in the lungs of people at high risk for lung cancer could help pinpoint who's most likely to develop the disease.

Reuters - Contrary to what some smokers may hope, antioxidants and other vitamins seem to offer no protection against lung cancer, new research suggests.

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review on Monday a $50 million punitive damages award against Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris unit in the case of a longtime smoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer and then died.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- The disturbing truth about lung cancer is that while smoking is a primary avoidable cause, non-smokers can contract lung cancer, too.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- The disturbing truth about lung cancer is that while smoking is a primary avoidable cause, non-smokers can contract lung cancer, too.

Reuters - A new study raises the concern that black patients with lung cancer have lower levels of trust in their physicians in part because of poorer perceived communication about their treatment.

Reuters - A test that finds damaged genes in the lungs of people considered at high risk of lung cancer might be able to predict who actually develops the deadly disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Specific genetic patterns may predict the course of lung cancer, researchers report.

Reuters - Measuring blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) -- a marker of inflammation -- may help identifying smokers with abnormal lesions in their airways that are likely to progress, new research suggests.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Experts say it may take the illness and death of Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher Reeve, to finally swing attention to lung cancer's grim toll on women -- even women who, like Reeves, never smoked.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Experts say it may take the illness and death of Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher Reeve, to finally swing attention to lung cancer's grim toll on women -- even women who, like Reeves, never smoked.

Reuters - The lung cancer death of activist Dana Reeve, a non-smoker and widow of "Superman" star Christopher Reeve, has focused attention on what some have discounted as a "self-induced" disease unworthy of adequate research money.

AP - Lung cancer is the world's top cancer killer and the most common cancer worldwide, with more than 1 million new cases every year and just as many deaths from it.