Lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography (CT) offers more benefits than harms for heavy active and former smokers: The procedure can prevent some people from dying from lung cancer and ...

Lung cancer screening rates among heavy current and former smokers remain low and unchanged despite prevention guidelines, according to a new study published in JAMA Oncology last week. For the study, ...

After decades of qualms about lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society said there now is enough evidence to recommend it, but only for current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74 and ...

Australia has launched a government-funded lung cancer screening program that provides biennial low-dose CT scans to patients who are either current heavy smokers or who have quit in the past decade.

A new research project in Minnesota hopes to save lives in rural parts of the state by increasing the number of people who ...

Occasional smoking, often dismissed as harmless, is leading to devastating diagnoses of advanced lung cancer and severe lung damage. Doctors are increasingly seeing cases where individuals who smoked ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Medicare program is proposing to add lung cancer screening tests for beneficiaries with a history of heavy smoking, the federal government announced on Monday. Screening for lung ...

Many consider vaping a “gentle” alternative for quitting smoking. Initial indications from recent years are confirmed by the ...

Lung cancer continues to be one of the most common and deadliest cancers worldwide. Studies have found that occasional ...

Early diagnosis reduces lung cancer mortality in heavy (ex-)smokers: benefits clearly outweigh harms through mis- or overdiagnosis. Screening design still open. English translation of the rapid report ...