Medically reviewed by Benjamin Leach, MD Lung cancer survival rates can be as high as 98% for certain cancers diagnosed in an early stage, and as low as 4% for those diagnosed with more aggressive ...

Five-year survival rates for people with lung cancer have doubled since the 1990s, but the disease still kills more patients than any other type of cancer, a Statistics Canada report said on Wednesday ...

Lung cancer may be curable, depending on a number of factors, including your age, health, stage of cancer, and how it responds to treatment.

Raymond Osarogiagbon, MD, highlights the potential benefits of increasing screening rates for patients diagnosed with lung cancer and the broader US health care system.

Camrelizumab combo doubled the five-year survival rate in advanced squamous lung cancer, reducing mortality risk by 43%, in a Phase 3 trial.

Imdelltra is associated with improvement in overall survival compared to local standard-of-care chemotherapy among patients with small cell lung cancer.

For oesophageal, stomach, lung, and brain cancer, survival remains below 20% and has scarcely improved in 50 years. Pancreatic cancer has a 10-year survival rate of just 4.3%.

Research from the University of Sheffield analyzed records from more than 170,000 lung cancer patients in England between 2014 and 2018, combined with chest x-ray rates from 7,400 GP practices.