Real-world lung cancer screening populations are older and sicker than those in the National Lung Screening Trial. Older age and more comorbidities may reduce the benefits of lung cancer screening.

Lung cancer screening saves lives by detecting cancer early when it is most treatable. But what many people don’t realize is that the same low-dose CT scans used to screen for lung cancer can also ...

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a procedure that uses X-rays to produce a series of images at different angles, generating a 3-dimensional view of the lung, is an effective screening technique ...

A groundbreaking robotic-assisted procedure, trialled for the first time in the UK, promises to revolutionise lung cancer diagnosis by enabling doctors to make microscopic movements within the lungs.

While the statistics remain stark—lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide and has the highest death ...

As the rates of late-stage lung cancer in nonsmokers rise in Canada, researchers are advocating for increased awareness and screening. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, lung cancer was ...

If everyone eligible had a lung cancer screening, 62,000 lives would be saved over five years, a new study shows. By Simar Bajaj Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if more people got screened ...

Carter-Bawa is a behavioral scientist and director of the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation. For years, federal policymakers ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University ...