Franciscan Health is offering $49 self-pay lung scans on Nov. 11 in honor of National Lung Screening Day. Lung scans are simple, non-invasive computer tomography (CT) screenings that use a minimal ...

Shira Kupperman Boehler was healthy, active and completely without symptoms when a routine full-body MRI revealed a mass in ...

Alex Biese: Hi, my name is Alex Biese. I'm the assistant managing editor of CURE® magazine. In this edition of the Speaking Out® video series, I'm speaking with Dusty Joy of LiveLung and the Lung ...

A population-based, prospective cohort study conducted in China finds that lung cancer risk remains low until 3 years after a negative low-dose CT screen.

Barry Manilow has disclosed that he was diagnosed with stage 1 lung cancer in November and is now cancer-free following ...

While smoking remains the leading risk factor, other contributors include secondhand smoke, air pollution, radon exposure and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control states that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women - nationally, and in the ...

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time and enable experts to see the functioning of transplanted lungs. This could enable medics to ...

The program is based on the findings of the National Lung Screening Trial, a study that compared CT scans and standard chest X-rays in detecting lung cancer. CT scans use X-rays to obtain a ...

Patients in Philadelphia are receiving cutting-edge detection of lung cancer and other health problems, thanks to a new low-dose CT scanning program offered by Temple University Health Systems. The ...

Their doctor had ordered a CT scan — a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s interior ...