It's not only due to smoking, as this survivor's story might help demonstrate—says one expert doctor: "All you need to be at ...

A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to measure the ...

A new survey conducted by the American Lung Association (ALA) highlights a troubling gap in awareness about early detection ...

If you’re at low risk of developing lung cancer, a doctor will likely tell ... A doctor may want to follow up with a CT scan if you’re at high risk. A doctor will likely want to monitor ...

A new study by the researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore cautioned that Computed Tomography(CT) scans may not be valuable for mass screening for lung cancer.

The problem: Lots of ads pitch CT scans for lung-cancer screening. And it would be great if there were a safe, effective way to catch the disease early, because it's still the leading cause of ...

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 ...

But preliminary results from an Italian team today showed how combining CT scans and a different scanning technique called positron emission tomography (PET) can reliably detect early lung cancer.

Pulmonary nodules smaller than two centimetres can be cured if detected early As part of European Lung Cancer Week, Dr Joseba ...

Efforts to help improve the early detection of lung cancer have seen more than 20,000 people in part of north-east England ...

To explain the nuances of lung cancer imaging, Dr Solomon Mutua, a clinical oncologist at The Nairobi West Hospital dittoes the role of chest CT scans in early lung cancer detection, and why ...