For decades, lung cancer was associated mostly with men and heavy smokers. Now doctors are seeing more cases in women and people who’ve never smoked cigarettes. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to ...

More Americans now qualify for yearly scans to detect lung cancer, according to guidelines released Tuesday that may help more Black smokers and women get screened. Lung cancer is the nation’s top ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who smoke are at greater risk than male smokers of developing lung diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis, new research from China suggests. Such illnesses ...

In the battle over the connection between cigarettes and lung cancer, one of the chief arguments on the negative side has been put as a question: Why don’t as many women get lung cancer as men? The ...

A doctor in China was forced to reject a pair of donated lungs that came from a deceased 52-year-old who had spent 30 years of his life chain-smoking. Dr. Chen Jingyu, of Wuxi People’s Hospital, said ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stepping into the debate over who should be screened for lung cancer, a leading medical specialty group issued new guidelines on Tuesday recommending that doctors offer annual low ...