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Arkansas expands access to free lung cancer screenings for high-risk residents

Arkansas health officials and the American Lung Association have launched a statewide initiative to increase access to lung ...

Nonsmoking Asian American and Latina women have higher rates of lung cancer. Why can’t they get screened?

Screening rules are too narrow and keep patients from receiving care until it’s too late, say many Boston-area researchers ...

HeartLung AI Welcomes CMS Coverage for AI-Enabled Opportunistic Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Detection on Chest CT

HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, April 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- HeartLung AI today welcomed CMS’s establishment of ...
IEEE

MVBV: A Multimodal Prediction Model for Lung Cancer Leveraging Cross-Modal Attention and Vision Transformer with CT Scans and Clinical Text

Abstract: Lung cancer is one of the most significant threats to human health, and early detection is crucial for patient survival and recovery. This paper proposes a multimodal deep learningbased lung ...
Medical Xpress

Unexpected findings on lung cancer CT scans may point to other non-lung cancers

When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those abnormalities could be signs of other ...
News Medical

Lung cancer scans can reveal signs of other undiagnosed cancers

When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those abnormalities could be signs of other ...
Brown University

Unexpected findings on lung cancer CT scans may point to other non-lung cancers, study finds

An analysis of lung screening data led by Brown University researchers helps identify which abnormalities detected outside the lungs may warrant follow-up attention and treatment. PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Frontiers

Bedside lung ultrasound versus chest CT in critically ill patients: a cross-sectional diagnostic accuracy study

Single-center, cross-sectional study of 200 paired LUS-CT examinations. LUS was performed within 12 h, scanning six zones per hemithorax and classifying findings into A-lines, C1 (pneumonia), C2 ...
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Opportunistic Detection of Coronary Artery Calcium on Noncardiac Chest Computed Tomography: An Emerging Tool for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Scientific Statement From ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis that confers increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Measured by noncontrast cardiac computed tomography, CAC ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Setidegrasib in Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Pancreatic Cancer

The KRAS p.G12D variant occurs in 5% of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and is the most common substitution variant in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, occurring in 40% of patients, ...
IEEE

Multi-granularity Adversarial Generation Integrated Consistency Representation for Chest Low-Contrast-Enhanced CT Synthesis

Abstract: Contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) is essential for clinical evaluation of vessel structures and function. However, high contrast agent dose increases the risk of renal injury. Reducing contrast ...
People

Barry Manilow Details Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Says It 'Made Me Take Stock of My Life' at 82 (Exclusive)

"This really rocked me," the music icon — who will release his 33rd studio album, ‘What a Time,’ on June 5 — says of going through cancer He made it through the rain — now Barry Manilow is opening up ...