Lung Cancer Special Issue

Lung cancer poses the greatest threat to survival when it's diagnosed in its later stages.

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a medical program designed for people facing chronic lung disease. It was first implemented for patients with COPD, and since has expanded to include patients with other diagnoses such as pulmonary fibrosis and even lung cancer.

In lung cancer, prognoses are most dire when disease has reached stage 4, leaving patients, their doctors and the research community eager for improved treatment strategies.

A nonprofit's new website section offers resources to caregivers of people with lung cancer.

Never-smokers are getting lung cancer more frequently, but detecting it at early stages is especially difficult.

Screening with low-dose CT creates opportunities to detect lung cancer at earlier stages, when treatment is more likely to cure the disease.

Targeted drugs, as well as immunotherapies, are beginning to change the treatment outlook for people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Until recently, detecting lung cancer at an early, more treatable stage was a rare or chance event.

The characteristics of stage 3 lung cancer can vary widely, leaving patients and their doctors to wrestle with questions about how best to treat the disease.