This trial was sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and its publication in 2011 provided, for the first time, level I evidence that LDCT screening can reduce lung cancer-specific mortality ...

Your chances of getting any type of cancer increase with age. Lung cancer is no exception. Most people who have it are 65 or older. The average age at diagnosis is 70. It’s rare to get lung ...

Lung cancer death rates are not equal across sexes ... doctors diagnose the majority of cases in people who are age 65 years or older. The average age of diagnosis is 70 years.

Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival in Early Stages ... and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 cancer cases and 262,120 cancer ...

Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors are associated with an increased risk for lung cancer but not overall cancer among older patients in the United States with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to study ...

Since 2013, guidelines have recommended using low-dose CT chest scans to screen for lung cancer in older heavy smokers. But ...

Researchers hypothesized that increased counseling, NRT provision, and screening for SDOH, with referrals to community-based services, would improve tobacco abstinence among current smokers.

Compared with same-aged adults who are cancer-free, older adults with cancer have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer disease and related dementias.

In these older patients, overall mortality rates from ... up 2% in men and 3% in women. In women, lung cancer is also predicted to rise by nearly 4%, and bladder cancer will rise by nearly 2% ...

Since 2013, guidelines have recommended using low-dose CT chest scans to screen for lung cancer in older heavy smokers. But those guidelines were updated in 2021 to start screening at 50 instead ...