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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TUPELO — Dr. Jaime Ungo, a specialist in pulmonology and sleep medicine at Pulmonary Consultants, feels strongly about the ...

Screening guidelines often fail to pinpoint who’s at risk, and few people who are eligible for screening actually get checked ...

In this Healio video, Alissa J. Cooper, MD, a thoracic oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses research the effect of low-dose CT screening in a non-risk-based population.

Teresa explains how learning about the new parameters for low-dose CT scans led to her early lung cancer diagnosis and ...

After finding abnormalities on low-dose CT lung cancer screening, guidelines spell out appropriate follow-up imaging or procedures. A national registry study showed that only 59.7% of patients ...

PORTSMOUTH — Southern Ohio Medical Center's (SOMC) CT lung screening program has seen tremendous growth over the past decade, and has helped thousands of patients begin their fight against lung cancer ...

A new study shows U.S. lung cancer screening with low-dose CT increased by six percentage points from 2022 to 2024, reaching ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Guidelines are needed for populations of never-smokers who have increased risk for lung cancer. Asian women who ...

February 15, 2007 — Recent calls for widespread computed-tomography (CT) screening to detect early lung cancer in smokers and other individuals at high risk are premature, say experts in the field: a ...

Results from the Female Asian Nonsmoker Screening Study (FANSS) highlight the potential value of low-dose CT (LDCT) screening for lung cancer among a growing but underserved population: Asian women ...