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Lung cancer screening
Lung cancer screening involves testing for lung cancer when no symptoms or disease history exist in an effort to increase early diagnosis, where treatments are more effective. The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends yearly lung cancer screening for individuals aged 50 - 80 who have a history of smoking 20 or more packs of cigarettes/year and currently smoke or quit smoking in the past 15 years. Screening is done via a non-invasive low-dose CT scan (LDCT) which uses a low dose of radiation to X-ray image the lungs.
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JAN 22, 2018
Cancer
The team expresses the need for there to be larger studies at this point into the new blood test and says these studies
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
JAN 22, 2018
Cancer
Nicotine, a stimulant in tobacco, has been found to be as addictive as many "hard" and illegal drugs like cocaine, heroi
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
JAN 09, 2018
Cancer
A meta-analysis published in January 2018 found that women who work night shifts may be at greater risk for several canc
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
JAN 02, 2018
Cancer
In December 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new genomic profiling test - the second in two month
...
Written By:
Julia Travers
DEC 31, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
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Written By:
Courtney Schaal
DEC 14, 2017
Cancer
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...
DEC 09, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
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Written By:
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DEC 05, 2017
Cancer
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...
DEC 01, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
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NOV 12, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
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SEP 14, 2017
Cancer
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...
SEP 06, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
AUG 02, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
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...
JUL 24, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
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...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 06, 2017
Cancer
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...
MAY 11, 2017
Cardiology
Survivors of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma are at a greater risk of severe coronary artery disease in the decades following c
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 16, 2017
Videos
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...
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MAR 13, 2017
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...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2017
Videos
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...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
FEB 02, 2017
Videos
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...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 17, 2017
Cancer
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...
JUN 15, 2016
Cancer
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...
MAY 14, 2016
Cancer
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...
APR 29, 2016
Cancer
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...