By screening high-risk people such as heavy smokers and those with a family history of lung cancer, Professor Moghissi hopes to cut down these statistics.

Danish scientists have found out that the fatal lung disease; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) will affect at least one in four long-term heavy smokers. Danish scientists have found ...

Lung cancer ... with pack-years of smoking but plateaued after approximately 23 pack-years. This ceiling suggests a biological limit to mutation accumulation, even in heavy smokers.

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death. Approximately 10-20 per cent of lung cancers occur in "never-smokers" -- people who have never smoked cigarettes or smoked fewer than 100 ...