The inherited mutation substantially increases the chance of developing lung cancer, including in people who don't smoke.

Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and ...

A rare genetic mutation could help to explain why some people who don’t smoke still develop lung cancer.

C EGFR T790M gene variant face roughly 25 times the lung cancer risk of noncarriers, according to the largest-yet study of ...

Lung cancer is so closely associated with smoking that people who have never smoked may assume their risk is extremely low.

A previvor is someone who has not had cancer but has learned they carry an inherited gene change that raises their risk.

The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.

Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different genetic paths. A new study shows that these differences can sometimes be traced ...

A single sperm donor who carries a rare cancer-causing genetic mutation has fathered at least 197 children across 14 countries in Europe, according to a collaborative investigation by 14 European news ...

One rare inherited mutation raised lung cancer risk more than smoking did, and the effect was strongest in people who never ...