World Lung Cancer Day has been observed every year on August 1 since 2012 to raise awareness about the risk of the disease.

Like asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma can take 20 to 40 years to develop and begin causing symptoms, among them painful coughing, shortness of breath and severe weight loss.

While examining a tissue sample of Makibi's lung under a microscope, Dr. de Nanassy found what he thought was a cluster of cytomegalovirus, or CMV.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reconsiders the ban on asbestos, an Indiana man suffering from asbestosis recovers from Loyola Medicine’s life-saving double lung transplant.