I am a 76-year-old woman in what I thought was excellent health. On a recent coronary calcium CT scan that was ordered because of my age and slightly elevated cholesterol, an incidental finding was ...

I am a 76-year-old woman in what I thought was excellent health. On a recent coronary calcium CT scan that was ordered because of my age and slightly elevated cholesterol, an incidental finding was ...

Some cancers can spread to the lungs. While the appearance of nodules on a CT scan in a person with no known cancer would be unusual, if the CT scan in four weeks shows that the nodules are enlarging, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Most people think, when it comes to lung cancer, those who have it were smokers or around smokers. While that fact is not wrong, more and more people who have not smoked are getting the ...

Red alert areas for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, are in both metropolitan and regional Queensland. Australian Medical Association Queensland ...

In a 2024 Journal of Thoracic Oncology review, Haiquan Chen, MD, PhD, of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center in China, and colleagues backed the use of selective lymph node dissection (LND) to ...

MONDAY, Oct. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with diabetes and early-stage pulmonary malignancies, administration of a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2-i) slows nodule growth ...

After years of chronic cough and misdiagnosed infections, a 2016 stage 4 ALK-positive lung cancer diagnosis led to targeted therapy that has helped since. Nancy Pronsati, vice president of the board ...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Dr. Ross Camidge is the director of the Thoracic Oncology Department at the University of Colorado Cancer Center on the Anschutz Medical Campus. “We’ve led or contributed to ...

In the 1960s, saltwater intrusion in a southeast Louisiana swamp killed the trees and plants that lived there. Now restored with freshwater, the swamp has become the perfect place for revegetation ...

This article is intended for U.S. audiences only. When Katie first expressed concerns about a dry cough in early 2020, she recalled her primary care doctor indicated it would likely go away on its own ...