Small cell lung cancer in the brain can occur when cells from a cancerous lung tumor break off and enter the lymph system or bloodstream. When the cells reach the brain, they can multiply and form a ...

If lung cancer isn’t caught early, there’s a high risk of it spreading to other parts of your body, including the brain. When cancer cells travel to the brain, doctors call it brain metastases (or ...

While there remain many unknowns about COVID-19, one thing already appears certain: it will continue to impact our lives and the healthcare space moving forward. The pandemic is having a profound ...

Imagine you go to the healthcare provider because you have a bad cough, or maybe you fell and hurt your ribs.

Lung cancer is a type of cancer that starts in or spreads to the lungs. Lung cancer is the No. 1 type of cancer that kills both men and women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

SCLC tends to spread more aggressively than the more common non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In fact, for about 70 percent of people with SCLC, it’s already spread to another part of their body by ...

Eleanor Ceres found out she had lung cancer after the tumor spread from her chest and began protruding out her neck. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Ceres has been smoking for over 30 ...

Researchers have determined what happens at a cellular level as the lung alveolus forms and allows newborns to breathe air. Understanding this process gives researchers a better sense of how to ...

Vatican officials now say that the new Pope Francis lost just part of a lung to disease as a young man, and that the injury has never affected his work. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

Chemotherapy is a form of cancer treatment that uses drugs to kill cancer cells. It's also called chemo. Your chemotherapy plan depends on the type and stage of lung cancer you have, your overall ...