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If everyone eligible had a lung cancer screening, 62,000 lives would be saved over five years, a new study shows. By Simar Bajaj Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if more people got screened ...
A New York City woman is using her lung cancer survival story to push for early detection, especially among nonsmokers and those in underserved communities. Colette Smith of the Bronx wrote a message ...
Jessie Creel’s cough started in May last year. At the time, a primary care physician diagnosed the mother of three with pneumonia. But the antibiotics didn’t work and her cough persisted. During a ...
Those harrowing words came over the phone to Karen Burns White last year while she was en route with friends to a jazz festival in Maryland. She had taken a blood test intended to detect multiple ...
A new randomized trial from North Carolina suggests that digital tools like mPATH may slightly boost participation in CT lung cancer screening—yet the overall uptake remains strikingly low. Despite ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I have read about using the immune system's response as a mechanism to battle cancer (such as brain and pancreatic) and to reduce the devastating impact that cancer and its treatment ...
Women who eat large amounts of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are at a greater risk of developing a precursor to bowel cancer, according to a new study. Research found women who frequently eat UPFs are ...