New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes ...

The Ion robot from Intuitive is billed as offering a minimally invasive procedure for biopsies that can help with early detection.

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics.

A research team led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

If you meet the criteria for lung cancer screening — meaning you are or have a history of being a heavy smoker, and are between 50 and 80 years old — experts recommend an annual low-dose ...

If there is ever an annual follow up CT scan that does not cause me significant anxiety, this year will be the one.

Long-standing inflammatory disorders, including COPD and GERD, signal heightened risk for lung cancer among never-smokers, ...

Medically reviewed by Rony Kampalath, MD Computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are two types of imaging procedures. They both create detailed images of the internal body ...

[2] Noncontrast CT in the emergency diagnosis of appendicitis is attractive for several reasons. Administration of oral contrast consumes valuable time in today's fast-paced and overcrowded ED.

Lung cancer arises in tissues of the lung, usually in the cells lining air passages. The two main types are small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, according to the shape of cells ...