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Orlando center bets on CT lung cancer screening
By Eric Barnes
A little more than a year after a Florida cancer care hospital took the plunge into low-dose CT lung cancer screening, the program has proved its worth, according to the physicians who are running it -- though they admit they wouldn't mind having a few more people to screen.
February 28, 2013
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Ultrasound spots lung congestion in dialysis patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lung ultrasound is capable of discovering asymptomatic lung congestion in dialysis patients, and these findings can predict risk of premature death or heart attacks or other cardiac events, according to research published online Thursday in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
February 27, 2013
Study shows disparities in PET access for NSCLC patients
By Wayne Forrest
While PET utilization increased overall among Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from 1998 through 2007, long-standing disparities in access to the technology actually worsened over the same time period, according to a study published online February 15 in Radiology.
February 26, 2013
Study finds CT lung cancer screening could save 12K lives a year
By Eric Barnes
Full implementation of CT lung cancer screening in the U.S. could save more than 12,000 lives each year, even if the relatively conservative criteria of the National Lung Screening Trial are used, according to a new study in Cancer. The study is one of the first to set a definitive value on the potential benefits of CT screening.
February 24, 2013
New CT lung cancer screening rules save more lives than NLST
By Eric Barnes
Lung cancer screening with CT would detect more cancers and save more lives if current screening criteria were modified to include a wider range of individuals at risk, concludes a new study in the February 21 New England Journal of Medicine.
February 20, 2013
Raising threshold for positive lung cancer screen cuts workups
By Eric Barnes
How big should a lung nodule be before it can be considered worthy of diagnostic workup? It's not just an academic question, as it plays into the growing debate over the clinical value and cost-effectiveness of CT lung cancer screening, according to a study published online February 18 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
February 17, 2013
Wide-area 4D CT gives hope in cases of 'inoperable' lung cancer
By Eric Barnes
Lung cancer patients with invasive tumors near vital structures are often thought to be inoperable cases. But these patients could gain new hope thanks to a dynamic 4D wide-area CT technique that is able to see the tumors in motion, helping clinicians give the go-ahead for surgical resection.
February 10, 2013
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SUVmax shows survival for NSCLC patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) may be a significant and clinically independent marker to indicate progression-free survival in stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy, according to a study presented at the Cancer Imaging and Radiation Therapy Symposium.
February 7, 2013
CT features help predict resolving, nonresolving lung nodules
By Eric Barnes
CT can't precisely distinguish resolving from persistent and potentially malignant lung nodules at the first scan, but it does reveal the probabilities associated with different nodule characteristics, Dutch radiologists have found.
January 31, 2013
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ACS: Risk of death from smoking spikes among women
By Eric Barnes
Women's smoking habits have grown increasingly to resemble those of men, and as a result, today's women face a dramatically higher risk of death from lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease compared with female smokers 20 to 40 years ago, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).
January 22, 2013
MITA praises ACS for lung CT screening guidelines
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) is lauding the American Cancer Society's (ACS) endorsement and publication of guidelines covering the use of low-dose CT screening for individuals at high risk of lung cancer.
January 14, 2013
ACR critiques ACS CT lung cancer screening plan
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is advocating for appropriate guidelines and practice standards regarding new recommendations from the American Cancer Society (ACS) for lung cancer screening using CT.
January 10, 2013
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