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• NCI, Canary Seek Non-smoking Lung Cancer Causes 

The National Cancer Institute and the Canary Foundation are partnering to fund a number of studies aimed at understanding the genetic causes of lung cancer in non-smokers and developing early-stage diagnostics.

NCI's Early Detection Research Network and the Canary Foundation will give $1 million each to a number of studies that will involve genomic and RNA analysis, protein and tumor biomarker discovery, transcriptomics, cellular alterations, and other research areas. The partners did not say how much in total funding they intend to disburse under the collaboration.

There is a need for such research because as many as 25 percent of lung cancers cases are not attributable to smoking, but the disease in non-smokers can be missed in its early stages, according to the National Institutes of Health. The disease in non-smokers also differs in many ways than it does in cases involving smoking.

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