HealthDay News — Over the past 45 years, cancer prevention and screening accounted for most cancer deaths averted for breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancers, according to a study ...

This cancer is often attributed to a lifestyle habit, but some experts suggest that association has left out 80% of the ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends a low-dose CT scan of the chest for anyone who is between ages 50 and 80 ...

Patients living with emphysema experience shortness of breath because areas within the lungs are diseased and are holding trapped air (hyperinflation of the lung). This makes it difficult to inhale ...

The spirometer (built-in 1846 by Hutchinson) measures ventilatory function (dynamic lung volumes and maximal flow rates). Miller 1996 [1]) shows a normal spirogram showing the measurements of forced ...