Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer. It kills more people in the U.S. than breast, prostate, and colon cancer combined. When lung adenocarcinoma, the most common primary lung cancer ...

There’s been a lot of doom-and-gloom talk about the economy lately. With oil prices climbing amid the U.S.-Iran war, job growth turning negative in recent months, retail spending cooling, and banks ...

CLINICAL QUESTION: In the evaluation of peripheral lung nodules, how does navigational bronchoscopy compare to transthoracic needle biopsy regarding diagnostic accuracy and procedural complications?

A liquid biopsy is a blood test designed to detect cancer cells or DNA fragments of cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream. While a liquid biopsy may be useful for spotting several types of ...

Introduction Our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic and safety performance of shape-sensing robotic-assisted bronchoscopy (ssRAB) with cone beam CT (CBCT) for the biopsy of pulmonary nodules.

Setting Two tertiary hospitals in south-central China. Patient data were consecutively enrolled from 1 June 2020 to 30 June 2023. Participants Of 2486 patients with pathologically confirmed thoracic ...

Leslie Stoll developed a blood clot that led to a pulmonary embolism after she broke her leg in 2014. The embolism was treated, but another occurred when Stoll had surgery on her foot years later.

Physicians at Frederick Health Hospital are diagnosing lung cancer earlier after the hospital recently implemented 3D technology to support its robotic lung biopsy systems. By using robotic biopsy ...

A magnetic microrobot navigates lung airways, drills microlesions, gathers biomarkers, and rapidly classifies cancer tissue with Raman sensing and machine learning in a single integrated workflow.