With most lung cancers in India diagnosed at advanced stages, experts say low-dose CT screening for high-risk groups like ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States. Every year, lung cancer claims more lives than breast, prostate and colon cancer combined. The reason is it so deadly? It often ...

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 ...

A strategy involving biennial screening at age 50, followed by annual screening at age 60, would result in a 20.6% reduction in the percentage of CT screenings performed. The strategy would mostly ...

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 ...

Real-world lung cancer screening populations are older and sicker than those in the National Lung Screening Trial. Older age and more comorbidities may reduce the benefits of lung cancer screening.

Low-dose CT screening in a high-risk population detected lung cancer in 2.0% of participants, with nearly 80% of cases diagnosed at stage I or II. The screening protocol demonstrated 97.0% sensitivity ...

Emphysema detected on baseline low-dose chest CT (LDCT) in the lung cancer screening cohort of more than 9,000 asymptomatic adults was associated with death from all causes, chronic obstructive ...

Researchers have demonstrated the benefits of lung cancer screening across socioeconomic groups. Evidence in the new study illustrates the value and importance of screening, especially for those who ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Lung cancer is the most common and most deadly cancer in Tennessee, but an expansion to the University of Tennessee Medical Center's services is aimed at bringing down those numbers ...