lung cancer

A cancer patient in Heraklion, Greece took his own his life earlier this week, as he was unable to bear the pain while waiting for a chemotherapy drug. Ioannis (Petros) Tournas, a 72-year-old cancer patient, suffered terribly while waiting for...

A new study presented on June 4 at a major cancer conference in Chicago has revealed that a simple pill can reduce the chances of dying from a specific form of lung cancer by half. This exciting development comes...

The first robotic chest lobectomy was performed successfully on an 80-year-old patient who suffered from lung cancer at the Inter-Balkan Medical Center of Thessaloniki last week. The surgery was performed using the “da Vinci Si HD” system, without an open...

A joint British-Greek study by the Imperial College of London (ICL), published in the "European Respiratory Journal,"  studied respiratory-related deaths in Greece during the years of the economic crisis and found that there had been a decline. The scientists studied...

Greece has a sad record of the biggest rate of lung cancer cases among the male population in Europe. However, this comes as no surprise since according to recent research, 63% of Greek adults smoke. Greece is one of the...

In spite of stricter laws banning smoking in public places, including cafes, bars and nightclubs, that have been enforced since 2010, deaths due to lung cancer in Greece show no sign of abating, and actually rose in 2011, scientists...