Between January 1, 2007, and May 31, 2008, 139 patients aged 18 years to 89 years (mean, 62.5 years) underwent a percutaneous CT-guided lung biopsy of a pulmonary nodule at our institution.

The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that high risk patients between 50 and 80 receive lung cancer screening.

which gives additional information about the nature of the lung nodule and drives the need for biopsy. If nodules have concerning features, your doctor will perform a biopsy in one of the ...

One in 16 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer in their lifetime. As the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., ...

November is lung cancer awareness month. Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns spoke with a pulmonologist about what lung cancer screening involves.

A 41-year-old Dunwoody mom who never smoked a day in her life was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 lung cancer.

The Ion Robotic Navigational Bronchoscopy system is minimally invasive and can identify cancer in even the smallest lung nodules.

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.

A bone marrow biopsy was performed ... repeat imaging of the chest showed resolution of the lung nodule and the adenopathy. At 2 years of follow-up, the patient’s hairy-cell leukemia remained ...

a nurse and lung nodule navigator in the pulmonology ward at Norman Regional Hospital. Their new technology, called the Ion Endoluminal system, is “like a robotic bronchoscopy,” improving the provider ...

“More than 70 percent of all lung cancer nodules are located in the outer one-third of the ... flexible scope through the patient’s throat and into the lungs to obtain a tissue sample for biopsy.