New research shows just how powerful the phytochemicals in green tea are turning out to be: they are now known to prevent breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and other forms of cancer. In fact, if green tea were a pr...[Read More]

Thorough preventive screening measures for lung cancer may be identifying too many abnormalities as cancerous, a new study says. Participants in the Mayo Lung Project who had been previously diagnosed with lung cancer were interviewed about...[Read More]

Living close to heavy industry may increase the risk of developing lung cancer, although the effect is relatively modest, suggests research published ahead of print in Thorax. Over 200 women under the age of 80 with primary lung cancer were...[Read More]

Cancer is a disease in which certain body cells don't function right, divide very fast and produce too much tissue that forms a tumor. A leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women is probably lung cancer. This is the number one ca...[Read More]

Accounting about for 14% of all cancers and 28% of all cancer deaths, Lung Cancer is now the major cause of deaths (of both men and women) in the United States apart from being the most prevalent species of cancer. Lung Cancer is different...[Read More]

A new study has found a correlation between higher rates of lung cancer and less exposure to sunlight. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of California at San Diego and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Co...[Read More]

Physical exercise can decrease the risk of developing lung cancer by up to 45 percent in former smokers, while proper diet can decrease it even further, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Sixth...[Read More]

Why do some people get lung cancer even if they never smoke? New research suggests eating a lot of processed foods containing inorganic phosphates could be the explanation. What's more, the study also suggests that dietary changes to avoid...[Read More]

A German professor has questioned the findings of a recent study that linked beta-carotene supplements to an increased risk of lung cancer in smokers. The obvious weakness of this study lies in its methodology, said Hans Konrad Biesalski of...[Read More]

A higher intake of vitamin E can cut the risk of lung cancer by more than half, researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has found. In a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer, researchers use...[Read More]