Every year, 1.8 million people lose their lives to lung cancer, making it one of the deadliest diseases and one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. A major reason for the high ...

Testing may involve X-rays and chest CT scans. Smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer and accounts for about 70 per cent of cases. Risk may also be higher for people who have ...

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

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

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." ...

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

Artificial intelligence (AI) helps a Sarasota, Florida, health system catch lung nodules that appear on CT scans for patients ...

Smokers and ex-smokers in Peterborough ... check and 676,481 have undergone follow-up CT scans. Some 5,976 people have been diagnosed with lung cancer through the programme, 76 per cent of whom ...

Local health care officials want to raise the profile of a fifth cancer-detection test that’s appropriate for patients who smoke: lung ... CAT scan of the chest for current or former smokers ...