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 ...

About a decade later, the U.S. Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) issued updated guidelines recommending annual screening for lung cancer with low-dose CT for adults ages 50 to 80 years with a 20 ...

Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can detect cancer earlier than other imaging tests. But some types of cancer are harder to detect on a PET scan. In particular, they may miss cancers that ...

New robotic bronchoscopy technology at Sentara Leigh allows doctors to reach lung nodules that were previously too small or ...

Sora Ely, MD, emphasized that national lung cancer screening rates remain below 10%, underscoring the urgent need for greater awareness and uptake.

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Lung cancer is one of the major causes of cancer-related fatalities in the global society, particularly due to its late diagnosis in most cases. Early diagnosis has great benefits in terms of survival ...

There is a test that could diminish the toll of the nation’s top cancer killer—if people would use it. Doctors are pushing harder to make that happen. Lung cancer kills upward of 127,000 people in the ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...