Science news articles about 'smokers lung'

... Department of Epidemiology. The previously published Spitz lung cancer risk prediction model was based ... cancers occur in current or former smokers. Lung cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer ...

... Hispanic, Native American, and Asian never-smokers in North America, researchers did find ... point out the importance of the disease among non-smokers. "Lung cancer is obviously a significant public ...

... cancer – such as those among non-smokers. Lung adenocarcinoma kills an estimated 1 million people ... Dr. Richard Gibbs, a co-author of the lung adenocarcinoma paper and director of the BCM Genome ...

A new study suggests that a molecule called miR-21 is important in the development of lung cancer in never-smokers and in smokers. Lung tumors from never-smokers with mutations in a gene called EGFR ...

Inflammation still ravages the lungs of some smokers years after they quit the habit. What sparks that smoldering destruction remained a mystery until a consortium of researchers led by Baylor College ...

... Medical Center. The authors created an artificial windpipe in the lab to replicate the environment of a smoker’s lung. They then studied the effects of cigarette smoke on different proteins in cells ...