CHICAGO — Claudia Donohue was on the operating table first thing in the morning. It wasn’t where she wanted to end up when she first learned she had lung cancer. When she saw the constellation of ...

Each lobe of the lung has the same physiologic function, bringing oxygen into the bloodstream and removing carbon dioxide. Sections of a lobe, or even entire lobes can be removed as a treatment for ...

The lungs are a pair of spongy organs in your chest. The right lung is bigger than the left lung. Each lung is divided into smaller parts called lobes. The right lung has three lobes, and the left ...

Radiation therapy is a cornerstone of lung cancer treatment. But even when delivered with precision, radiation can damage healthy lung tissue. "Try as we might, when we deliver radiation to a cancer, ...

On average, we breath around 20 times per minute, every minute and every hour, day, week, month and year of our lives. It is one of the first things we do immediately after birth and one of the last ...

Sometimes cancer that starts in one part of your body, known as the primary site, spreads to other parts. That’s because cancer cells can travel, or metastasize, via your bloodstream or lymph system.

"We found that a subset of cells expressing the gene Krt5 becomes dominant and starts pushing out normal cells. This expansion becomes dramatic and eventually the descendants of just a few cells that ...

Tufts student Billy Senopoulos, plagued by Cystic Fibrosis since birth, is very ill. Senopoulos, 27, needs a complicated lung transplant, which requires finding two separate suitable donors willing to ...

Large cell lung carcinoma (LCLC) is a non-small cell lung cancer that often grows fast. It can spread aggressively and is often found in the outer edges of the lungs. Symptoms can include a worsening ...