A new US study released Wednesday found that people who received chest X-rays to screen for lung cancer showed no better survival rate after four years than those who were not screened at all. The ...

A chest X-ray can help your doctor look for abnormalities in your lungs. If your doctor suspects COPD, they may also order a type of X-ray called a CT scan. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

October 26, 2011 (Honolulu, Hawaii) — The largest study yet to examine the issue shows that screening with chest radiographs does not reduce mortality from lung cancer, researchers reported here at ...

X-ray dark-field chest imaging – a new technique touted as the most significant advance in standard chest X-ray in 100 years – has shown for the first time that it may help diagnose lung disease in ...

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that blocks the lung’s arteries. Blood clots do not show on chest X-rays. However, these X-rays may help doctors rule out other health conditions with similar ...

Routine chest X-rays do not prevent lung cancer deaths, not even in smokers or former smokers, according to a big government study challenging a once common type of screening. In the study of more ...

Preliminary result of phase II study of megestrol combined with 5-hydroxytryptamine 3 inhibitor and dexamethasone for the prevention of nausea and vomiting induced by high emetogenic chemotherapy.

While smoking remains the leading risk factor, other contributors include secondhand smoke, air pollution, radon exposure and ...

The drive to test healthy people for common cancers rests on the idea that finding malignancies early can trigger life-saving treatment. But the evidence that some of the tests will actually reduce ...