WHEN Kerrie Mitchell found a lump just beneath her neck, she never imagined it could be lung cancer. For at 46, the busy working mum felt as fit as a fiddle and brushed the thought of it aside ...

Almost all people who get it are smokers ... will determine how advanced your lung cancer is, a process called staging. This usually involves getting a CT scan of the chest and abdomen, and ...

Cigarette smoking is by far the biggest risk factor ... even before discrete lung nodules develop," he added. "However, lung CT scans remain the best diagnostic tool for those at risk." ...

It invested in a robotic, noninvasive technology for biopsies of hard-to-reach lesions in the lungs and to remove suspected ...

smoking status and type of lung cancer. The results showed that 77.9% of the participants had detectable atherosclerosis on CT scans. Additionally, the data revealed that 47.8% of the patients had ...

Colonoscopies, mammograms, Pap smears and prostate exams are designed to detect early signs of cancer. Local health care ...

For current and former smokers, statins may reduce the amount of chest muscle loss, while aspirin may contribute to increased ...

In former and current smokers Statins may reduce chest muscle loss in smokers, while aspirin could increase it.

A deep-learning algorithm has enabled ultra-low dose CT scans to diagnose pneumonia with only 2% of the radiation of standard ...