To address the awareness gap, the American Lung Association launched a website called “Saved by the Scan,” where anyone can take a quiz to see if they should get screened.

As exciting as full-body MRIs seem, many in medicine are skeptical. But there are useful cases.

The American Lung Association is working to highlight the importance of lung cancer screening.

In what could be one of the simplest—and more comfortable—ways to improve cancer diagnosis, researchers from Saint Louis University have found that placing a warm blanket on patients before a PET or ...

A newer type of prostate cancer scan called 64 Cu-SAR-bisPSMA found more than twice as many cancer spots as a commonly used PSMA PET scan in men whose prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was rising after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Preparing for a medical test often triggers health anxiety, making it easy to worry about hidden conditions and care needs. While ...

Computed tomography (CT) examinations (known more commonly as a “CT scan” or “CAT scan”) incorporate a series of x-ray images taken of areas inside the body and use a computer to create a ...

More than 100,000 future cancer cases were projected to result from the 93 million CT examinations performed in 2023, according to a study published April 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Low-dose CT ...

Shira Boehler shares her journey being diagnosed with Stage 1 lung cancer. A doctor explains the need for better lung cancer screening for asymptomatic, never smokers.

CT scans are used to investigate all sorts of medical issues, from checking for brain bleeding after a kid takes a hard hit on the soccer field, to revealing what a bike accident did to a cyclist’s ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier ...

Colon cancer can be found in a few ways, including a digital rectal exam and a fecal occult blood test. There is also the option of using devices in a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. There is also a ...