Lung cancer screening | Healthwatch 16
November is lung cancer awareness month. Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns spoke with a pulmonologist about what lung cancer screening involves.
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Chesapeake Regional Healthcare hosts Lung Health Fair to aid smokers in quitting
Low-dose CT scans are recommended for people between 50-80 years old, who smoke or formerly smoked and have a 20 pack-year smoking history. At the fair, attendees were also able to have their lungs ...
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Montefiore unveils renovated ICU waiting room, hosts special lung cancer screening event for Bronx community
In recognition of November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month, the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center unveiled the Jack D. Weiler Hospital's newly ...
CT corrections officer accused using excessive force on inmate after ‘finding him with cookies’
The corrections officer was reportedly involved in an incident with a 66-year-old inmate when he searched him as he was ...
Doctors said my chest pain was pulled muscle but it was cancer
Holly Bedford, from Torquay, was first diagnosed with malignant melanoma - a deadly forms of skin cancer - in 2019 at just 27 ...
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Lung Cancer: 4 Surprising Facts about Risk Factors and Screenings
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society and the leading ...
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Asthma or COPD: How Symptoms Could Mask Signs of Lung Cancer
Certain chronic conditions that affect the lungs, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), can have ...
I was smoking and reading the Bible when I decided to give up cigarettes — I felt blessed when I got lung cancer
Barbara Rodriguez, 53, later discovered her cancer wasn’t even caused by her smoking, but rather a gene mutation.