Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

To put that in context, those 103,000 cancers would account for about 5 percent of cancers diagnosed each year, based on the current cancer rates and the current usage of CT scans.

Neoadjuvant durvalumab (D) + chemotherapy (CT) + novel anticancer agents and adjuvant D ± novel agents in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Updated outcomes from NeoCOAST-2. Authors: Tina ...

They proposed that of the estimated 61.5 million people who got CT scans in 2023, eventually 103,000 would develop cancer linked to radiation exposure.

It turned out to be small cell lung cancer. “It was devastating but it is what it is. We’re all only here for a visit,” she said. Small cell lung cancers are among the more difficult to treat.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) develops in lung tissues, but when it's metastatic, it has spread to distant areas of the ...

Studies suggest that up to 30% of scans might not even be medically essential. And that’s not great news considering just one chest CT can give you the same radiation as about 100 chest X-rays ...

For CT screening for lung cancer, raising the nodule size to 7 or 8 mm as the threshold for further workup could spare patients undue anxiety and yield more true-positive diagnoses.