The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

Screening for disease, including cancer, can cause harm —during screening, diagnosis and treatment. With lung cancer ...

Australia’s new lung cancer screen program further disadvantages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who are ...

From July, eligible Australians will be screened for lung cancer as part of the nation's first new cancer screening program ...

Expanding eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening to include 20-year smoking history without requiring a certain ...

Further, the studies shows no unexpected adverse events. As our current lung cancer screening strategies are primarily focused on smokers, the increasing rates of malignancy in nonsmokers call for a ...

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.

In the past, lung cancer screening in the healthy elderly did not appear cost-effective or reliable, but the situation has changed with the advent of low-dose CT scanning.

“This is why CT scan screening for patients with increased risk of lung cancer has been shown to reduce lung cancer mortality,” said Magsaysay.

What is known and what is new? • Previous studies have shown that the degree of lung inflation, reflecting the change of lung volume, could affect the volume and density of pulmonary nodules.

Moffitt Cancer Center 's new mobile unit will deploy into communities Non-invasive, low-dose CT scanner onboard American Lung Association: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death overall ...

Lung cancer is a big problem. It claims many lives each year. Around 160,000 people die annually in the US. This figure is ...