Unlike the West, where smoking remains the dominant driver, India’s COPD burden is shaped by pollution, says Dr Anurag ...

Age based lung cancer screening detected 93.9 percent of cancers and showed superior cost effectiveness, highlighting missed patients under current US risk based eligibility criteria.

Researchers explored whether a direct-to-patient digital intervention could increase the number of lung cancer screening CTs among patients in 2 US health systems.

Researchers reveal that current lung cancer screening guidelines miss 65% of patients, and call for universal age-based ...

Current guidelines exclude a large number of people who could have their cancer detected earlier, according to a new study.

Two modeling studies suggest that making more people eligible for lung cancer screening would prevent tens of thousands of ...

The lung cancer screening system “is not a risk assessment. It is a judgment system designed as one,” writes the director of ...

Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and ...

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a procedure that uses X-rays to produce a series of images at different angles, ...

Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for required scans, researchers said.

Current lung cancer screening guidelines restrict eligibility to a select group of longer-term smokers. A new study finds ...