BROOKLYN, New York City (WABC) -- A non-profit has launched a pilot program to provide lung cancer screening to the underserved, with a first stop in Brooklyn to be extended throughout New York City.

Early detection saves lives, especially when it comes to lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka is urging Humboldt County ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT could have saved tens of thousands of lives — if only we'd listened to the data back in the 1970s. Instead, fear of radiation, obsession with overdiagnosis, and ...

This story has been updated to correct a misspelled name. Donna Rogers had been a social smoker for more than 30 years. She would share cigarettes with friends and family members, preferably Kool ...

Adults aged 75-80 years benefit from lung cancer screening just as much as younger patients if they are fit enough for surgery, according to a new study. Researchers found that when those older adults ...

The Female Asian Nonsmoker Screening Study (FANSS) showed a 1.3% lung cancer detection rate among 1000 Asian women with no smoking history. The findings of FANSS, the largest lung cancer screening ...