The Latest Breaking News from Lung Cancer

According to the most recent lung cancer statistics from the World Health Organisation/International Agency for Research on Cancer, globally, 2.2 million people had lung cancer in 2020, and 1.8 million passed away from it.

When he was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, Townsville resident Hugh Boon was given six months to live. Now, a clinical trial is giving him hope — but it comes at a "traumatic" travel cost.

‘That’s Life’ presenter first announced her diagnosis in January

The TV icon says she only feels grateful when she looks back on her long life and six-decade career.

Dame Esther confirmed in January she has been diagnosed with lung cancer.

Speaking for the first time about her treatment, she says: “'I’m on one of the new medications, and nobody knows if it’s working or not. But I will have a scan fairly soon which will reveal one way or another'

Miriam Stoppard shares groundbreaking research from the universities of Oxford and Nottingham, where scientists have developed a tool that could pinpoint the people most at risk of developing lung cancer, which is the most common cause of cancer death

Its new device has been successfully used to treat its first ever patient

The former A Place in the Sun presenter has opened up about his terrifying lung cancer diagnosis in 2020, and how the condition has changed the way he thinks of things 'retrospectively'.

The former A Place in the Sun presenter was initially diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2020, which later spread to his brain and become terminal. However, he kept it from the public until November last year.

Dame Esther Rantzen missed The One Show's tribute to That's Life due to her battle with lung cancer, as the show reached it's 50th anniversary of it first airing