Tag: Cancer: Lung
Changes in Depression Symptoms Tied to Mortality in Lung Cancer
Increased risk with new-onset depression, persistent depression, but not depression symptom remission
Lung Cancer Decision Aids Are Helpful for Patients
Patient understanding of lung cancer screening increased after participation in focus groups
ASTRO: SBRT Ups Survival in Older Early-Stage NSCLC Patients
Findings suggest SBRT should be standard for patients treated with radiation for stage I NSCLC
Similar NSCLC Survival for Surgical, Endosonographic Staging
Five-year survival not significantly different after mediastinoscopy or endosonographic staging
Whole Brain Radiotherapy Offers Little Benefit in Brain Mets
Randomized trial shows limited clinical benefit for patients with NSCLC and brain metastases
Targeted Therapies Beneficial in KRAS-Mutated NSCLC
Improved progression-free survival for patients treated with therapy not containing erlotinib
X-Rays Have Low Diagnostic Yield for Pulmonary Metastases
Findings in patients treated for T1a renal cell carcinoma followed with X-ray surveillance
Nonsolid Nodules Unlikely to Cause Death in Lung Cancer
Lung cancers that manifest as nonsolid nodules seem to have indolent course
Surgery Tied to Longer Survival for Lung Cancer Patients
Too few may be getting procedure, research suggests
Many PCPs Discuss Low-Dose CT Screening With Patients
But more than half report making one or no screening recommendations in past year
