Screening guidelines often fail to pinpoint who’s at risk, and few people who are eligible for screening actually get checked ...

Lung cancer screening helps find lung cancer early, when it is easier to treat. The screening test for lung cancer is called a low-dose CT scan. Low-dose CT scan has ...

A lung CT scan, or computerized tomography scan, is a vital tool used to detect lung cancer, but can also be useful in ...

Teresa explains how learning about the new parameters for low-dose CT scans led to her early lung cancer diagnosis and ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Smokers who have a single CT scan to look for lung cancer have a one in ...

Results Out of 1,251 initially eligible individuals, 560 individuals without chest CT scans at hospital admission, 56 individuals with poor computed tomography scan quality, 294 individuals with ...

CT Technologist Danielle Rogers and driver Will Grant stand outside the Indiana University Health mobile lung screening unit, ...

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body's ...

What started out as a preventative scan turned into a life-changing cancer diagnosis. Now, Shira Kupperman Boehler is trying ...