Medicare's final decision to cover computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening gives seniors at high-risk for the disease access to care that can save more lives than any cancer screening test in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the American Lung Association, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. Here in Lee ...

After finding abnormalities on low-dose CT lung cancer screening, guidelines spell out appropriate follow-up imaging or procedures. A national registry study showed that only 59.7% of patients ...

Dawn Andersen lost her husband to lung cancer, and as a longtime smoker herself, she also was at high risk for the disease. So Loyola Medicine pulmonologist Sean Forsythe, MD, recommended Mrs.

PORTSMOUTH — Southern Ohio Medical Center's (SOMC) CT lung screening program has seen tremendous growth over the past decade, and has helped thousands of patients begin their fight against lung cancer ...

Indiana University Health is offering mobile lung screenings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Jackson County Health Department, 801 W. Second St.

February 15, 2007 — Recent calls for widespread computed-tomography (CT) screening to detect early lung cancer in smokers and other individuals at high risk are premature, say experts in the field: a ...

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 ...

Low-dose chest CT for lung cancer screening provides the opportunity to simultaneously screen patients for osteoporosis, detecting notably higher rates of osteoporosis in men than the traditional tool ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with a low-dose CT scan between June 2000 and December 2008 were followed for a median of 23.3 years.

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s ...