About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

A retrospective study of 32 patients shows that contrast-enhanced ultrasound guidance can delineate tumors hidden within collapsed lung tissue and deliver a definitive diagnosis when bronchoscopy is ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

CT scans identified cancer in 13% of patients with non-specific symptoms, despite a fivefold increase in referrals from GPs from 2012 to 2019. Around 1 in 7 patients were diagnosed with cancer. This ...

A simple breath test could help doctors determine whether suspicious lung nodules are cancerous without immediately turning ...