A study has found that blocking inflammatory responses in the lungs before lung cancer develops can suppress cancer occurrence. There are expectations that future treatment development could proceed ...

Caspase-1 is a prototypical inflammatory caspase central to innate host defence and inflammatory homeostasis. Upon detection of microbial or danger signals by pattern-recognition receptors of the ...

Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures can also contribute to the disease.