Patients who fit this new, non-obstructive COPD classification were more likely than those without COPD to die from respiratory causes (adjusted HR 3.58, P=0.003) and from any cause overall ...

Lung Cancer Causes. Smoking is the biggest reason. It’s responsible for about 85% of all cases. Quitting cuts the risk. Former smokers are still slightly more likely to get it than nonsmokers.

Using just one inhalation lung CT scan, a deep learning model can accurately diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published today in Radiology ...

Lung metastases or second primary lung cancer were identified in 7.4% of patients screened with chest x-ray and in 55.1% of those screened with low-dose CT. Chest x-ray demonstrated a sensitivity ...

If your lung CT scan results are normal, that means your lungs are clear, ... Nodules are found in up to half of adults who have a chest X-ray or CT scan of the lungs. [3] ...

From July, eligible Australians will be screened for lung cancer as part of the nation's first new cancer screening program ...

According to a 2022 study published in the JAMA, lung, or pulmonary, nodules are identified in approximately 10.6 lakh people per year in the US and are detected on about 30% of chest CT scans.

The R/I ratio showed limited accuracy in predicting lung recruitability in ARDS but reliably identified low recruiters.

To explain the nuances of lung cancer imaging, Dr Solomon Mutua, a clinical oncologist at The Nairobi West Hospital dittoes the role of chest CT scans in early lung cancer detection, and why ...