Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for required ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

Colette Smith of the Bronx was diagnosed with lung cancer, despite never smoking. Her survival story is central to her push ...

According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is encouraging smokers and ...

Current lung cancer screening guidelines restrict eligibility to a select group of longer-term smokers. A new study finds ...

Out of 1,251 initially eligible individuals, 560 individuals without chest CT scans at hospital admission, 56 individuals with poor computed tomography scan quality, 294 individuals with entirely ...

A new randomized trial from North Carolina suggests that digital tools like mPATH may slightly boost participation in CT lung ...

Their study has discovered that subtle changes in lung scarring over just one year, as measured by quantitative computed tomography imaging, are strongly linked to future lung-function decline and ...

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 ...