The latest average life expectancy at birth is 81.5 years across the five boroughs, the city health department says.

Human health is strongly intertwined with the health of the microbiome. A large number of studies have shown that the human ...

Smoking a cigarette takes approximately 20 minutes off your life expectancy and increases your risk for various health ...

Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop on the Australian soap, was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare lung cancer last year ...

When added to chemotherapy, researchers found no significant difference in overall or progression-free survival between PD-1 ...

You might not think that there's a link between the state where you reside and your risk of death from cancer. Interestingly, ...

Cancer screenings can save lives by detecting cancer early, when treatment is most effective.With an estimated 2 mil ...

Rising air pollution, changes in hormone levels, immune system imbalances and longer life expectancy are increasing the risk ...

and other factors can have a big impact on a patient’s life expectancy. Many mesothelioma survivors have lived for several years past their expected survival rate. According to Lung Cancer ...

Because asbestos-related illnesses, such as mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis, can take decades before the first symptoms of the diseases show, the number of people diagnosed with such diseases ...

Iams from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center describe a rare case of drug resistance in a patient with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The patient, a 42-year-old man who had never smoked ...

German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany 2German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Translational Lung ...