HANCOCK COUNTY, W.Va. — Weirton Medical Center is adding to its toolbox when it comes to early detection for lung cancer, through its new Low Dose Lung CT Scanning Program. The program provides early ...

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Denise Lee smoked up to two packs a day for 40 years, but when she quit at 54, Denise made one more lifesaving decision.

Last September, former CNN host Larry King announced that he'd been treated for lung cancer. Luckily, doctors had caught it at stage 1, after detecting it with a CT scan followed by a PET scan. King ...

The statistics are stark — by far the leading cancer killer of Americans is lung cancer, and about 4 in 5 lung cancer deaths are thought to result from smoking. Today, in addition to quitting, there’s ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - Lung cancer is one of the cancers we see most in our region, but early detection can save your life. “Many times patients do not know they have it, or they’re not diagnosed ...

DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (KTIV) - Providing imaging that could save a life. Since June 2024, the CNOS Imaging Center in Dakota Dunes has provided low-dose CT lung screenings. “This is more of a preventative ...

Do you know that, if you are a current or former smoker, there is a test that is more likely to save your life than a yearly mammogram or a screening colonoscopy? Of all malignancies, lung cancer is ...

INDIANAPOLIS — After hours, you'll find Jeff Todd out back in his Logansport garage working on his passion project, restoring a 1989 Jaguar XJS. He inherited the British Racing Green convertible with ...

Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women in the U.S. according to the American Cancer Society. It's also the leading cause of death from cancer because patients often don't ...

RALEIGH,N .C. (WTVD) -- November is World Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and a new noninvasive x-ray screening is helping Triangle doctors detect early stage lung cancer. The new technology uses a ...

Nov. 16 (UPI) --CT scans expose patients to radiation, even as they help doctors spot serious health problems. Now, a new study finds low-dose scans can spot appendicitis readily while reducing ...