Why Look for Molecular Markers?

As Shannen Doherty revealed her cancer diagnoses and upcoming podcast and a woman with breast cancer completed her bucket list, here is what’s happening in the oncology space this week.

Lung cancer survivor Terri Conneran shares her story of creating a non-profit to help connect with fellow patients and survivors who have the KRAS biomarker.

A recent study revealed that patients with recurrent or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer tended to have better overall survival compared with those diagnosed with stage 4 disease.

A man shares how reading the footnote of a CT scan looking for heart disease alerted him to a mass in his right lung, leading to an unexpected diagnosis of lung cancer.

Dr. Nabil Rizk, chief of thoracic surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, explains that segmentectomy is “just a little bit more of a refined way of treating cancers.”

Diane Messick, a three-time lung cancer survivor, tells CURE® about her cancer journey which has included a segmentectomy, a lobectomy and radiation treatment since receiving her first diagnosis in 2017.