If your lung CT scan results are normal, that means your lungs are clear, and you won’t need another screening until your next yearly exam. Your scan may reveal a nodule on your lungs, but that ...

“It consists of having a yearly low-dose CT scan of the chest,” said pulmonologist with Avera Medical Group, pulmonary and ...

Patients with connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease show slower decline in lung function and longer ...

More and more thoracic CT scans are being performed worldwide in order to detect lung diseases such as bronchial carcinoma ...

“We’re now able to see the invisible,” says Dr. Bradley Richmond, a pulmonologist who along with Dr. Michael Lester co-led the study. “XV LVAS technology gives us a window into parts of the lung we’ve ...

The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

In radiation therapy, precision can save lives. Oncologists must carefully map the size and location of a tumor before delivering high-dose radiation to destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy ...

On average, for every 930 CT scans performed, one unlucky patient developed a cancer (such as lung, colon, breast, bladder or leukaemia) which they otherwise would not have got – due to the ...

DURING SCREENING SEASON, which runs from March to December, LUCAS sets off on Mondays from the cancer institute in Morgantown ...

But people rarely get CT scans for the fun of it. ... RadRAT, the calculator that the researchers used, is designed to estimate the lifetime risk of cancer for people who are generally healthy.

And that’s not great news considering just one chest CT can give you the same radiation as about 100 chest X-rays. So, if you're getting several scans a year, it’s worth asking your doctor if ...