Yearly chest X-rays to look for lung cancer aren't worth doing because they don't save lives, according to a federally funded study. More than 150,000 people took part in the research.

Thirty patients of the survey group were first seen three or more years ago, between December, 1947, and April, 1951 ().In 24 (80 per cent) a histologic diagnosis could not be made until the chest ...

Incidence of Cancer of the Lung in Mass Chest X-ray Survey. The remaining 76 persons were reported to have cancer.† Of these, 43 were proved to have primary cancer of the lung (7.8 per 100,000).

Chest X-ray screening for lung cancer was common decades ago, and some doctors continue to recommend it in smokers and former smokers. The new study results should put an end to that practice, ...

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital developed a convolutional neural network (CXR-LC) that predicts long-term incident lung cancer based on a chest X-ray image using 41,856 people from ...

Chest x-rays, as a screening test, don't reduce deaths from lung cancer, a new study finds. CT scans do reduce deaths, but have a high rate of false positives.

Lung cancer: Study shows 20 percent reduction in mortality with low-dose CT vs chest X-ray. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 06 / 110629181849.htm ...

Minimal Dose Computed Tomography Scan of the Chest (MnDCT) delivers a radiation dose comparable to that of chest X-ray (CXR), with greater sensitivity for detecting new or recurrent lung cancer.

If you're a current or former smoker intrigued by those advertisements for spiral CT scans to detect early signs of lung cancer, the National Cancer Institute may have just the thing for you. Last ...

Research from the University of Sheffield analysed records from more than 170,000 lung cancer patients in England between 2014 and 2018, combined with chest x-ray rates from 7,400 GP practices.

Chest X-ray Exposure May Increase Likelihood Of Breast Cancer. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 06 / 060627105051.htm ...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Japan, with 45 927 men and 17 307 women dying from lung cancer in 2006. Since 1987, lung cancer screening programme using chest X-ray and sputum ...