In this Healio video, Alissa J. Cooper, MD, a thoracic oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses research the effect of low-dose CT screening in a non-risk-based population.

Screening guidelines often fail to pinpoint who’s at risk, and few people who are eligible for screening actually get checked ...

A new study from researchers at National Jewish Health and collaborating institutions has found that different patterns seen on lung scans can signal how severe sarcoidosis may be, and how it affects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TUPELO — Dr. Jaime Ungo, a specialist in pulmonology and sleep medicine at Pulmonary Consultants, feels strongly about the ...

Teresa explains how learning about the new parameters for low-dose CT scans led to her early lung cancer diagnosis and ...

A lung CT scan, or computerized tomography scan, is a vital tool used to detect lung cancer, but can also be useful in ...

Researchers have developed a new COPD diagnostic framework that uses chest CT imaging and symptom assessment alongside traditional lung function tests, identifying at-risk patients missed by ...

A new diagnostic schema for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that incorporates chest CT imaging and symptom assessments has been shown to better identify patients at risk of poor ...

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 ...

Diagnosing early-stage lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening drastically improves its cure rate measured over a 20-year period, according to a large-scale international study by ...

For something so small, the thymus has had an oddly quiet life in medicine. It sits behind the sternum and helps train T ...