ALLMedicine™ Lung Cancer Guidelines Center

Aug 24th, 2021 - Timely care is an important dimension of health care quality, but the impact of delays in care on lung cancer outcomes is unclear. Quantifying the impact of delays in cancer treatment on survival is necessary to inform resource allocation, quality...

Oct 19th, 2020 - National guidelines failed to classify many younger African American lung cancer patients as being eligible for lung cancer screening in a recent retrospective study, the lead author reported at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest.

Sep 27th, 2020 - There is a paucity of evidence on which to produce recommendations on neither the clinical nor the imaging follow-up of lung cancer patients after curative-intent radiotherapy. In the 2019 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence lung can...

Sep 5th, 2019 - Background: Palliative radiotherapy plays an important role in metastatic lung cancer (LC) treatment. Of VHA LC patients, 46% present with metastatic disease.

Dec 12th, 2018 - Approximately 30% of tumor biopsies from patients with advanced-stage lung adenocarcinomas yield insufficient tissue for successful molecular subtyping. We have analyzed the clinical utility of next-generation sequencing (NGS) of cell-free circula...

May 10th, 2013 - Continued tobacco use in the setting of lung cancer management is frequently confounding and always of critical importance. We summarized the published literature concerning the management of tobacco dependence in patients with lung cancer and off...

May 10th, 2013 - The objective of this article is to update previous evidence-based recommendations for evaluation and management of individuals with solid pulmonary nodules and to generate new recommendations for those with nonsolid nodules. We updated prior lite...

May 10th, 2013 - Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a treatable, but not curable, clinical entity in patients given the diagnosis at a time when their performance status (PS) remains good. A systematic literature review was performed to update the prev...

Dec 5th, 2020 - From tiny biotech firms to giant pharmaceutical companies, the oncology drug development pipeline is pulsing with activity. There are nearly 900 potential new medicines and vaccines to treat cancer under study in the United States, according to th...

Oct 20th, 2020 - National guidelines failed to classify many younger African-American lung cancer patients as being eligible for lung cancer screening in a recent retrospective study, the lead author reported at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest ...

Oct 19th, 2020 - National guidelines failed to classify many younger African American lung cancer patients as being eligible for lung cancer screening in a recent retrospective study, the lead author reported at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest.

Sep 5th, 2019 - Background: Palliative radiotherapy plays an important role in metastatic lung cancer (LC) treatment. Of VHA LC patients, 46% present with metastatic disease.

Nov 6th, 2013 - CHICAGO – One in three patients sent to surgery for a suspicious lung nodule by their community pulmonologist did not have cancer in a retrospective analysis of 385 patients. In addition, half of patients with benign disease underwent an invasive.