A chest X-ray or CT scan often incidentally finds lung nodules which are small growths While most lung nodules are benign ...

Due to the destructive nature of COPD on patients’ lungs and well-being, timely diagnosis is key, and integrating spirometry ...

From a thorough history going back decades to a mass meeting of experts, identifying occupational lung diseases can be ...

By integrating spirometry with low-dose CT scans, physicians at Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System are identifying serious lung conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

A new diagnostic tool developed by physicians and scientists from UNSW Sydney that analyzes a person's breath for signs of ...

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT could have saved tens of thousands of lives — if only we'd listened to the data back ...

For the study, researchers analyzed 2022 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on nearly 28,500 ...

A total of 2% of the eligible population was diagnosed with lung cancer after a positive screen on baseline CT, amounting to a number needed to screen being 49. 2. The sensitivity of the low-dose CT ...