Picture this: Your doctor orders an imaging test like a chest X-ray in preparation for an upcoming procedure, and the results show a small white spot in the center of your lungs—a pulmonary or lung ...

UD News University of Dayton researchers are helping Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center by developing artificial ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD A solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) is an isolated lung growth surrounded by normal tissue. Most SPNs are benign (not cancerous) when they're diagnosed. However, ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool helps doctors predict the cancer risk in lung nodules seen on CT, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology. Pulmonary nodules appear as small ...

A simple nasal swab may help in the diagnosis of lung cancer in smokers who have undergone CT screening and had lung nodules detected on the scan. Only about 5% of the nearly 1.6 million lung nodules ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Low-dose chest CT screening resulted in “notable detection” of lung nodules among never smokers, researchers ...

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 ...

The good news is that imaging scans do detect lung cancer early. The bad news, according to a study in the journal Radiology, is that they are much more likely to detect harmless nodules that pose no ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Diagnostic accuracy was comparable between navigational bronchoscopy and CT-guided biopsy. Fewer patients with ...

The good news is that imaging scans do detect lung cancer early. The bad news, according to a study in the current issue of the journal Radiology, is that they are much more likely to detect harmless ...