After finding abnormalities on low-dose CT lung cancer screening, guidelines spell out appropriate follow-up imaging or procedures. A national registry study showed that only 59.7% of patients ...

Current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force screening guidelines could exclude more than 60% of patients who develop lung cancer.Conversely, an age-based approach to screening could save more than 25, ...

Carter-Bawa is a behavioral scientist and director of the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation. For years, federal policymakers ...

Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for the CT chest scans that could have spotted tumors early and extended their lives, new ...

Real-world lung cancer screening populations are older and sicker than those in the National Lung Screening Trial. Older age and more comorbidities may reduce the benefits of lung cancer screening.

CancerIQ, a precision health platform supporting cancer early detection, and Azra AI, an AI-powered enterprise platform ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made a preliminary decision to cover lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for eligible patients. The decision was ...

Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and ...

The Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic is improving lung cancer detection through a new cutting-edge robot system and the ...

Medicare's final decision to cover computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening gives seniors at high-risk for the disease access to care that can save more lives than any cancer screening test in ...

Eight counseling sessions with short-course nicotine replacement therapy delivered the best value per quit in a lung cancer ...