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 ...

Early detection is a proven, successful strategy for fighting many forms of cancer. Seattle Cancer Care Alliance offers screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) for people at high risk for ...

There’s a screening at East Liverpool City Hospital geared toward current and former smokers when it comes to their lungs.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung Metastasis, Scan, Low dose CT scan of the chest is the only ...

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 ...

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 ...

April is National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month. According to the American Lung Association, a new statewide ...

Among eligible populations, screening for breast and colorectal cancers was nearly four times more common than for lung cancer. Among those who never had lung cancer screening, roughly 60% had ...

As lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada, screening programs across the country have introduced low-dose CT for people at risk of lung cancer. These CTs can also easily identify ...

Short-interval CT demonstrated spontaneous resolution of consolidation in more than 50% of lung cancer screening participants, while persistent consolidation showed a 29.8% risk for malignancy. This ...