Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is encouraging all eligible adults to add a lung cancer CT scan to their November to-do ...
Less than 20% (19.6%) of Americans who are eligible to get screened for lung cancer are getting the test they need, according ...
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society and the leading ...
Our progress against lung cancer is something to celebrate. Millions of lives have been saved in the U.S. alone since rates of smoking began to drop in the mid-1960s. And as smoking continues to ...
For many decades, Kentucky has been leading the nation in lung cancer incidence and mortality. While this is a grim statistic ...
Smoking and tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, with few groups as heavily ...
Since June 2024, the CNOS Imaging Center in Dakota Dunes has provided low-dose CT lung screenings. “This is more of a ...
In its early stages, lung cancer may not show any symptoms. That’s why, if you meet the criteria for getting screened, lung ...
"We're unfortunately seeing up to 20% of patients who present with lung cancer have never smoked," said Abbas. At younger ...
Lung cancer screenings are available at area Ascension St. Vincent locations through Check Up 13. For more information or to ...
The latest report by the American Lung Association also found marked state-by-state and racial differences related to ...
SO IF YOU FALL INTO ANY ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, YOU SHOULD TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT A LOW DOSE CT SCAN IN ORDER TO PROTECT YOU FROM DYING FROM LUNG CANCER. FOR HEALTHBEAT, I' Screening for lung ...