Expanding eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening to include 20-year smoking history without requiring a certain number of pack-years yielded a relative 28% increase in the number recommended ...
Community First Health Plans will begin enforcing Medicare-aligned coverage and billing requirements for low-dose CT lung cancer screenings on June 1, 2026. Coverage is limited to patients aged 50–77 ...
Jessie Creel’s cough started in May last year. At the time, a primary care physician diagnosed the mother of three with pneumonia. But the antibiotics didn’t work and her cough persisted. During a ...
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 ...
A new study led by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MD Anderson Cancer Center, has found that a ...
Doctors at Sarasota Memorial Hospital say a new early detection program is helping catch more lung cancers before symptoms ...