The randomized NLST had shown that three rounds of annual screening with low-dose CT reduced lung cancer mortality by 20% among current and former smokers as compared with the same number of annual ...

Identifying the cause of a chronic cough can be life-saving. Here we talk to five people with very different reasons for ...

During a live event, Alexander I. Spira, MD, PhD, and participants NGS testing practices and the rationale behind their ...

An X-ray is a fast, painless, and non-invasive imaging procedure used to capture internal body structures, primarily bones. During the process, X-ray beams pass through the body, with different ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can greatly help in this direction, as evidenced by a partnership between the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Qure.ai. Through its AI-powered tool, qXR, this ...

Robotic bronchoscopy can help diagnose spots in the lungs when they are still small, catching cancer sooner and saving many ...

AI-based diagnostic tools, particularly deep learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated ...

Lung cancer may be seen on chest radiograph and computed tomography (CT scan). The diagnosis is confirmed with a biopsy. This is usually performed by bronchoscopy or CT-guided biopsy. Treatment ...

A North Yorkshire hospital has introduced AI technology that could speed up the detection of lung cancer and other serious illnesses. Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust said the software ...

Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.

This can sound confusing, but the reason is that by the time tumors are large enough to be detected by a chest X-ray, they have already grown to a size at which survival would be similar if the tumor ...