Chronic coughing is a common symptom of lung cancer. If you have a chronic cough and don't know why, see your doctor. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) A cough that never goes away or gets worse over ...

Animation illustrating the steps involved in the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant surgery that took place at NYU Langone Health on Oct. 22, 2024 in New York, NY. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

A lung biopsy may be used to diagnose lung cancer. There are many kinds of lung biopsies, but common ones include needle, transbronchial, and open. In some cases, prior tests like chest X-rays or CT ...

Wendy Brooks, a patient with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, and her husband and care partner, Larry Brooks, sat down ...

Chest pain is most likely to develop during the later stages of lung cancer. This is generally due to lung tumors that can cause pain that worsens when coughing, laughing, or breathing deeply. Lung ...

Squamous cell lung cancer starts in the squamous cells: thin, flat cells that line the inside of the airways in your lungs. If you're diagnosed after the cancer has spread, it tends to be more ...

Inoperable lung cancer may refer to different types of lung cancer that doctors cannot treat with surgery. They may also use the term unresectable lung cancer. Although a diagnosis of inoperable lung ...

Lung cancer sometimes spreads to the airways that bring oxygen into your lungs, causing the airways to narrow or get blocked. When this happens, it's hard for your lungs to fully expand when you ...

Natalie Brown never smoked but was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer at 33. She had a double lung transplant to remove the cancer — only to learn the disease was in her spine. She is continuing ...

Christy Houvouras exercises daily, eats right and has smoked fewer than 20 cigarettes in her lifetime. That’s why she was shocked when she was diagnosed with lung cancer at just 36 years old in July. ...