Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most common cancer among both men and women in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. At very early stages, ...

Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic—or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A ...

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

Small cell lung cancer is aggressive and spreads quickly. There are many options for treatment, depending on the type and ...

“Using AI for tasks like CAC detection can help shift medicine from a reactive approach to the proactive prevention of disease,” said Dr. Hagopian. He pointed to the potential for fewer heart attacks, ...

Background: In the screening of pulmonary subsolid nodules (SSNs), it is crucial to compare the quantitative parameters under consistent computed tomography (CT) acquisition conditions, including the ...

Smoking is clearly the single most important risk-factor for lung cancer. [2, 3, 29] Given that lung cancer is uncommon in non-smokers, trials of screening tests should focus on those at highest ...

The pleura is a vital part of the respiratory tract and is vulnerable to conditions that can affect how it works and how well you breathe. Some of the more common include pleurisy, pleural effusion, ...

A full-resolution (512x512x512) CT image is first downsampled to 128x128x128, left and right lung segmentations are acquired then upsampled back to the original image space, bounding boxes for each ...

The look on her face, and on her husband's face, was one of exhaustion and confusion. Modern medicine is crazy complicated and the truth is, it's hard to communicate medical conditions, therapies, ...

More than half of patients (52%) were male, mean age was 66 years, and 68% (1017) were current smokers. Low-Dose CT Scan: The Key to Early Lung Cancer Detection ...

The scan revealed a small spot on his lung. But thanks to early detection, Barlow's lung cancer was still in its early stages. "That was, like, in November [2023]," Barlow said.