Expanding eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening to include 20-year smoking history without requiring a certain number of pack-years yielded a relative 28% increase in the number recommended ...

Jessie Creel’s cough started in May last year. At the time, a primary care physician diagnosed the mother of three with pneumonia. But the antibiotics didn’t work and her cough persisted. During a ...

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 ...

Lung cancer screening might be the best-kept secret in health care today. Only about 16% of those who are eligible in the U.S. get screened for lung cancer, but a study appearing in NEJM Catalyst ...

A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MD Anderson Cancer Center, has found that a ...

Early detection saves lives, especially when it comes to lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka is urging Humboldt County ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The mPATH-Lung digital health program positively impacted chest CT completion and lung cancer screening orders ...

Odds of chest CT completion up by 60% compared with usual care. HealthDay News — A direct-to-patient digital health intervention increases rates of lung cancer screening, according to a study ...

Colino is a contributor for TIME. Radiologist showing tomography scan of a patient's lungs over of CT machine. Treatment of lung diseases, pneumonia, coronavirus, covid, cancer, tuberculosis Colino is ...