When screening patients for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (CT), raising the nodule size threshold from 5 mm to 7 or 8 mm before starting a more intensive workup could result in fewer ...

A new study of non-solid lung nodules, followed via annual spiral/low-dose CT scans among smokers and ex-smokers, shows that that type of nodule can be safely followed with imaging, avoiding needless ...

Lung nodules — small masses of tissue in the lung — are quite common. They appear as round, white shadows on a chest X-ray or computerized tomography (CT) scan. Lung nodules are usually about 0.2 inch ...

September 7, 2011 — For monitoring lung nodules with computed tomography (CT), radiation dose can be reduced to approximately 3% of the current standard dose without compromising efficacy, according ...

Hearing that you have something abnormal on a lung scan or chest X-ray is scary. The first thing you probably assume is that you have cancer. While that may be true, it's far more likely that the ...

Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Screening with low dose computed tomography (called low dose CT or LDCT) can save lives for people at high risk for this ...

GROSSE POINTE (WWJ) -- Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe has opened a new lung nodule clinic to provide early diagnosis and treatment of abnormal pulmonary nodules. Pulmonary nodules are a round or ...

That is the question some current and former smokers have been asking themselves in the wake of widely publicized findings on the benefit of early lung cancer screening. The study, reported last week ...

More Americans die each year from lung cancer than from any other type of cancer. Lung cancer accounts for almost 25% of all cancer deaths — more than colon, prostate and breast cancers combined. That ...

Yes, lung nodules can be cancerous, though most lung nodules are noncancerous (benign). Lung nodules—small masses of tissue in the lung—are quite common. They appear as round, white shadows on a chest ...

Yes, lung nodules can be cancerous, though most lung nodules are noncancerous (benign). Lung nodules—small masses of tissue in the lung—are quite common. They appear as round, white shadows on a chest ...