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

SHREVEPORT, La. - A routine medical screening is credited with saving a local woman's life. Doctors say lung cancer often ...

In a study of more than 31,000 adults, an EHR-integrated patient-facing tool significantly improved identification of ...

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 ...

A machine learning lung cancer risk prediction model outperformed logistic regression, supporting improved risk assessment and more efficient radiology based lung cancer screening.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

It is hoped that a pilot lung cancer screening project will lead to a national service aimed at detecting the disease sooner ...

When screening patients for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (CT), raising the nodule size threshold from 5 mm to 7 or 8 mm before starting a more intensive workup could result in fewer ...

Radon and smoking are both known causes of lung cancer, but when someone is exposed to both, the results can be deadly.