Doctors and researchers noticed that when cancer patients took beta-blockers because of their heart disease, they tended to live longer than other cancer patients. They decided to study whether beta-blockers significantly improve survival for several different types of cancer.
A study published in the highly respected New England Journal of Medicine shows that palliative care, which helps manage symptoms and control pain, is a very effective addition to standard cancer treatment for people with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer
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Research shows that taking fish oil supplements can help lung cancer patients respond better to and experience less side effects from chemotherapy.
More than half of all people with lung cancer have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Could testing for COPD be a way of catching lung cancer earlier?
For years, doctors and medical researchers have been puzzled by the fact that African-Americans are more likely to die from lung cancer than people of any other race or ethnicity, although they are not more likely to smoke. How could this be?