When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New ...

Nationally known lung cancer expert and director of the Yale Cancer Center Thomas Lynch, M.D., is available to speak about just-released government findings that CT scans can lower mortality from lung ...

The program is based on the findings of the National Lung Screening Trial, a study that compared CT scans and standard chest X-rays in detecting lung cancer. CT scans use X-rays to obtain a ...

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Researchers have developed a new AI system that improves lung cancer detection by analysing CT scans at both microscopic and ...

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

Low-dose chest CT for lung cancer screening provides the opportunity to simultaneously screen patients for osteoporosis, detecting notably higher rates of osteoporosis in men than the traditional tool ...

The article which appeared on January 8 "Panel endorses CT scans for lung cancer" should have been placed on page one. This test would save lives and is overdue for implementation. In 2003, I had a CT ...

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - On a recent morning in a Quad Cities procedure room, a nurse leaned over Dave Tressel and teased, “Don’t bite me.” “I ain’t going to bite you — I don’t have my dentures,” ...