ALTON If you (or someone you know) is a smoker or a previous smoker, completing a low-dose CT screening could save your ...

A pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic shares the lung cancer warning signs he looks for in his own body. The deadly disease ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest, abdomen, and spine, taken originally to detect problems such as kidney stones or ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death, but advances in screening, surgery and personalized treatment are ...

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. During this Check, CT Buzz reporter Jillian Andrews speaks with Michael Cohenuram, ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

Lung cancer related to cigarette smoking is a well known public health challenge. What you may not know is that lung cancer takes more lives than breast and prostate cancer combined. Awareness of the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Smokers who have a single CT scan to look for lung cancer have a one in ...

When screening patients for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (CT), raising the nodule size threshold from 5 mm to 7 or 8 mm before starting a more intensive workup could result in fewer ...

CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient's future risk of heart disease and heart ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest, abdomen, and spine, taken originally to detect problems such as kidney stones or ...