Lung Cancer Health Center

Dec 31 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today launched its new Center for Tobacco Products in an historic effort to curb the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by those products each year. Read more »

Aug 24 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that a laboratory analysis of electronic cigarette samples has found that they contain carcinogens and toxic chemicals such as diethylene glyco... Read more »

Jul 23 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alimta (pemetrexed), the first drug available for maintenance therapy of advanced or metastatic lung cancer. Read more »

Jul 6 - Government and private sector cancer scientists today launched a research partnership to find biomarkers for lung cancer that develops in people who have never smoked. The research studies are desi... Read more »

May 4 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Jevtana (cabazitaxel), a chemotherapy drug used in combination with the steroid prednisone to treat men with prostate cancer. Jevtana is the fir... Read more »

Jun 18 - Despite hopes that higher blood levels of vitamin D might reduce cancer risk, a large study finds no protective eff... Read more »