The aim is to find and treat lung cancers early, before they grow and spread, to improve the chance of survival. Here’s what’s involved.

Navigational bronchoscopy showed similar accuracy to needle biopsy for diagnosing lung nodules, with a markedly lower risk of ...

Lung cancer becomes one of the diseases with a high mortality rate. The identification of lung nodules as a representation of lung cancer becomes a very important part. One method of identifying lung ...

Navigational bronchoscopy was noninferior to CT-guided biopsy when assessing diagnostic accuracy in patients with lung ...

Addressing the challenges of inaccurate lung nodule segmentation due to significant scale variations, indistinct boundary textures, and intense background noise, this study introduces a Segment ...

Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Local-Regional/Small Cell/Other Thoracic Cancers. May 25, 2020. ... An exploratory study of PD-1 inhibitor for high-risk multiple ground-glass nodules (mGGNs) in synchronous ...

Patients receiving 60 mg QD Rentosertib showed the greatest mean improvement in lung function, with a mean FVC increase of +98.4 mL, compared to a mean decline of -20.3 mL in the placebo group.

Background Estimation of the clinical probability of malignancy in patients with pulmonary nodules will facilitate early diagnosis, determine optimum patient management strategies and reduce overall ...

Findings will also note if the nodule contains fat. Density: Nodules can be described as solid (dense), nonsolid (fuzzy, often called ground-glass nodules) and part-solid (fuzzy but they have both ...

While cigarette smoking is widely known to cause lung cancer, many believe that other types of smoking, like vaping, and smoking marijuana, will not have the same impact on their long-term health.

SAN FRANCISCO — In patients with lung cancer, more patients managed with current vs. more intensive surveillance guidelines for small pulmonary nodule evaluation had a tumor that progressed in ...