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HSHS urges adults to prioritize lung cancer CT scans in November for early detection
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is encouraging all eligible adults to add a lung cancer CT scan to their November to-do ...
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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For Your Health — A Painless Test for Lung Cancer That Saves Lives
Our progress against lung cancer is something to celebrate. Millions of lives have been saved in the U.S. alone since rates of smoking began to drop in the mid-1960s. And as smoking continues to ...
Chesapeake Regional Healthcare hosts Lung Health Fair to aid smokers in quitting
In honor of the Great American Smokeout, Chesapeake Regional Healthcare hosted a Lung Health Resource Fair on Thursday. The ...
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More people surviving lung cancer, but work remains in screening and biomarker testing
Yet just 16% of eligible people get screened for lung cancer, far lower than screening rates for colorectal ... The screenings consist of annual low-dose CT scans. Only about 27% of cases are ...
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.
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Healthbeat 4: How CNOS Imaging Center uses low-dose CT lung screenings that can detect early signs of lung cancer
Since June 2024, the CNOS Imaging Center in Dakota Dunes has provided low-dose CT lung screenings. “This is more of a ...