Three medical societies claim recent studies have overestimated the potential harms from lung cancer screening and may be deterring patients. Not everyone agrees.

Carter-Bawa is a behavioral scientist and director of the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation. For years, federal policymakers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung cancer screening remains strikingly underused, with ...

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Titusville Area Hospital’s imaging department has been designated a lung cancer screening center through an accreditation by ...

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Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for the CT chest scans that could have spotted tumors early and extended their lives, new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the statistics remain stark—lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide and has the highest death ...

Less than 20% of eligible individuals currently undergo lung cancer screening, according to a national survey. Among eligible individuals, 100% lung cancer screening uptake could quadruple the number ...

Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. In the United States and elsewhere, there’s been a major shift in ...

Cancer screenings exist to try to detect the disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately to save lives. But screenings for lung cancer—the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide—are narrow, and ...