Lung cancer screening is new in Australia and has the potential to change thousands of lives by catching lung cancer earlier, ...

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About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

Worried about cancer and stroke, many people are seeking whole-body computed tomography (CT) scans to detect disease ...

Free lung health checks are being offered to those who have smoked. The lung cancer screening team will be at Lowther Medical ...

Denise Lee smoked up to two packs a day for 40 years, but when she quit at 54, Denise made one more life-saving decision.

After seeing an American Lung Association billboard that read, "If you smoked, this lung cancer screening could save your life," Denise scheduled a low-dose CT scan. The next day, her results came ...

Saxon Gayo, 60, a lung cancer survivor, shared his story during a proclamation signing at Adelup on Friday, advocating for residents to support early detection efforts through use of low-dose ...

The lung cancer screening team will be at Lowther Medical in Whitehaven. They are offering free lung health checks to people aged between 55 to 74 years who have ever smoked. After an initial chat, ...

Early detection of lung cancer is challenging because symptoms often do not appear until the disease has progressed, and when they do, they may be mistaken for less serious conditions, emphasized ...

Early screening among high-risk groups can lead to earlier detection, better prognosis and higher success rates for curative ...