Sandra Champkins hadn’t smoked for 10 years and showed no symptoms of lung cancer when an early screening program detected ...

Sandra Champkins was symptom-free when a CT scan in a Tesco car park detected she had cancer.

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and older adults are at higher risk. But only ...

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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 ...

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 ...

IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT. TODAY IS WORLD CANCER DAY. THE LEADING CAUSE OF CANCER DEATHS IN THE U.S. IS LUNG CANCER. SADLY, THE OVERALL FIVE YEAR SURVIVAL RATE IS JUST 28%. BUT IF IT’S CAUGHT EARLY, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung cancer screening remains strikingly underused, with ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those ...

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 ...