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Friday was World Lung Cancer Day, and Aspirus Health has a clear message for anyone who has ever been a heavy smoker — ...

Yearly mammograms, although slightly uncomfortable and tedious, are a wealth of information for patients and providers, especially when it comes to cancer screenings. Some researchers, however, say ...

We learned that getting a CT scan of his lungs every year would have detected his deadly cancer. We didn't know the ...

"His doctor never advised him to have this simple scan that could have identified it early in its development and possibly ...

A CT scan or Computerized tomography is also called a CAT (computerized axial tomography). It is essentially an X-ray procedure that combines a large number of X-ray images taken in succession.

As World Lung Cancer Day approaches on August 1, a spotlight is being cast on the importance of early detection in reducing ...

CT scans also have supplanted exploratory surgery, Thomason said. "When my father was a general surgeon, they took so many patients to surgery (because) they had no idea what they had wrong with ...

Use of CT scans in the U.S. has more than tripled in less than two decades. Despite the medical benefits, these scans emit a significant amount of radiation. A new study estimates that 29,000 ...