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 ...

ESTHER Rantzen’s daughter has given a heartbreaking health update on her mum’s condition as she lives with terminal lung ...

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

Since 2013, guidelines have recommended using low-dose CT chest scans to screen for lung cancer in older heavy smokers. But ...

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 ...

Since 2021, when lung cancer screening guidelines began to include younger people and those with a lower smoking history, the ...

Incidental pulmonary nodules (IPNs) are often detected during routine CT scans ... after smoking 20 years or more. “When we look at the data, only about 42% of lung cancer patients qualified ...

Since 2013, guidelines have recommended using low-dose CT chest scans to screen for lung cancer in older heavy ... and to include those with a smoking history of 20 or more pack-years instead ...