Sentences with phrase «of patients with lung cancer»

Late detection and lack of effective therapies make the probability of survival of patients with lung cancer is very low.

The researchers found there was a decline in the relative proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting the USPSTF criteria overall, from 57 percent in 1984 - 1990 to 43 percent in 2005 - 2011.

Ping Yang M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., and colleagues conducted a study to examine the trends in the proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting the USPSTF screening criteria.

The proportion of patients with lung cancer who smoked more than 30 pack - years declined, and the proportion of former smokers, especially those who quit smoking more than 15 years ago, increased.

«The decline in the proportion of patients meeting USPSTF high - risk criteria indicates that an increasing number of patients with lung cancer would not have been candidates for screening.

Now more than ever, IASLC needs to take leadership in optimizing the global management of patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies.

Lovly's clinical practice focuses primarily on the care of patients with lung cancer.

A qualitative study of providing pro-active social support targeted to the carers of patients with lung cancer

These findings are consistent with previous research, in which caregiving burden among spouses of patients with lung cancer was related to 3 - and 6 - month follow - up distress in spouses.

They also chose to study a type of K - Ras mutant called G12C (for Glycine - 12 to Cysteine), a K - Ras mutant prevalent in about seven percent of patients with lung cancer.

Recent meetings of the European Society of Medical Oncology (October 7 - 11, 2016) and the IASLC Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology (September 22 - 24, 2016) provided important updates and new information relevant to the multidisciplinary management of patients with lung cancer.

An analysis of lung cancer incidence and screening found a decline in the proportion of patients with lung cancer meeting high - risk screening criteria, suggesting that an increasing number of patients with lung cancer would not have been candidates for screening, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA.

«For about 80 percent of our patients with lung cancer, we don't have tests like [the one for] ALK to tell us what treatments will work best,» Shaw says.