Significant incidental findings in patients undergoing CT screening are associated with increased risk for extrapulmonary cancer diagnosis.

There’s a screening at East Liverpool City Hospital geared toward current and former smokers when it comes to their lungs.

When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those abnormalities could be signs of other ...

Screening individuals for lung cancer with low-dose CT on a nonrisk basis is associated with a marked reduction in lung cancer mortality and better overall survival, reveals Chinese data.

The profile of lung cancer patients is shifting, in part due to factors such as radon, air pollution and genetics. Screening ...

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT could have saved tens of thousands of lives — if only we'd listened to the data back in the 1970s. Instead, fear of radiation, obsession with overdiagnosis, and ...

A new randomized trial from North Carolina suggests that digital tools like mPATH may slightly boost participation in CT lung cancer screening—yet the overall uptake remains strikingly low. Despite ...

Screening rules are too narrow and keep patients from receiving care until it’s too late, say many Boston-area researchers ...

The mobile lung screening unit will be coming to Greenwood on May 26. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., it will be stationed at Grand ...

There are only a few cancer diagnoses more terrifying than lung cancer. The disease is responsible for about one-third of all U.S. cancer deaths every year and only 15% of people diagnosed with it ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of ...

Among eligible populations, screening for breast and colorectal cancers was nearly four times more common than for lung cancer. Among those who never had lung cancer screening, roughly 60% had ...