Background Antifibrotic (AF) therapy has been shown to potentially reduce the risk of lung cancer (LC) in patients with ...

Protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 2 ( PTPN2 ) is a tyrosine phosphatase involved in T cell receptor signal ...

Introduction Evidence suggests that platelets play a significant role in inflammation in addition to their role in thrombosis. Systemic inflammation is linked to poor short and long term outcomes in ...

Background Current quantitative chest CT techniques improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phenotyping but do not capture spatial variability and potentially reversible disease in local ...

Background The authors consider whether differences in stage at diagnosis could explain the variation in lung cancer survival between six developed countries in 2004–2007. Methods Routinely collected ...

Guidelines on contraindications for lung function tests have been based on expert opinion from >30 years ago. High-risk contraindications to lung function testing are associated with cardiovascular ...

2 Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA 3 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison M DeDent, 513 Parnassus Ave, HSE 1314, Box 0111, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California CA 94143, USA; alison.dedent{at}ucsf.edu ...

1 Cancer Research Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK 2 Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of ...

4 Members of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society Empyema Study Group: A Bush and M Rosenthal, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London; T Edmunds, Sick Children's NHS Trust Edinburgh; W ...

Sex differences in outcome after endoscopic lung volume reduction (ELVR) in patients with emphysema: a retrospective analysis of the German Lung Emphysema Registry (LER e.V.) ...