Only 20% of Iowans who qualify for lung cancer screening get one - and an innovative new program from the University of Iowa ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with a low-dose CT scan between June 2000 and December 2008 were followed for a median of 23.3 years.

A new initiative aimed at increasing lung cancer screening rates in Iowa is moving forward with support from Eli Lilly and ...

It is hoped that a pilot lung cancer screening project will lead to a national service aimed at detecting the disease sooner ...

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a procedure that uses X-rays to produce a series of images at different angles, generating a 3-dimensional view of the lung, is an effective screening technique ...

Risk is a concept that lung cancer specialists and their patients contend with on a daily basis -- the risk of choosing one treatment method over another; the risk of adverse events tied to those ...

A machine learning lung cancer risk prediction model outperformed logistic regression, supporting improved risk assessment and more efficient radiology based lung cancer screening.

While the statistics remain stark—lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide and has the highest death ...

Radon and smoking are both known causes of lung cancer, but when someone is exposed to both, the results can be deadly.

There's big cancer news this month. The American Cancer Society reports that for the first time, the five-year survival rate ...

NHS cancer screening programmes can help to diagnose cancer or its risk earlier and improve the likelihood of successful treatment.

A lung cancer diagnosis can feel frightening. And when a family member is diagnosed, you might wonder about your own risk, prompting you to ask if lung cancer is hereditary. Smoking tobacco accounts ...