the second most common cancer in both men and women and the leading cause of cancer death in the US. Although there are risk factors for lung cancer, such as smoking, there are many cases where the patient never smoked. Because of this, there is growing interest in investigating the lung microbiota and how that may promote or prevent disease. Yearly...

Autoantibodies are an excellent biomarker for both autoimmune disease and cancer, however, some autoantibodies, called common autoantibodies, have been found to occur frequently in healthy individuals. The presence of these common autoantibodies can impede the search for disease-linked autoantibodies or lead to false positives. The identification of...