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Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years.
Australia’s new lung cancer screen program further disadvantages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who are ...
Screening for disease, including cancer, can cause harm —during screening, diagnosis and treatment. With lung cancer ...
The National Lung Screening Trial demonstrated a 20% relative reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography screening, leading to implementation of lung cancer screening across ...
Expanding eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening to include 20-year smoking history without requiring a certain ...
We know that such biomarker assays may be useful in both identifying lung cancers but also in identifying patients with a high-risk result who should undergo lung cancer screening by conventional ...
Lung cancer is the nation's deadliest cancer and advocates say the new screening program provides long-awaited hope. What's next? The program aims to save 12,000 lives over the next decade.
HealthDay News — Among individuals eligible for lung cancer screening (LCS), use of breast cancer screening (BCS) and colorectal cancer screening (CCS) is much higher than use of LCS, according ...
Of those, 11,147 participants (weighted population 4,945,993) were eligible for both lung cancer screening and for breast cancer screening (under 2016 USPSTF criteria).
Although lung cancer screening is recommended in the U.S. for certain individuals with a history of smoking, only 18% of eligible individuals in the U.S. get screened.
OMAHA, Neb. — Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the United States, according to the Cleveland Clinic. And on Thursday, many around the metro got a free screening.