Latest Lung cancer screening Stories

Renews Call for National Strategy to Better Address the Disease WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA) released its updated 2009 Facts About Lung Cancer illustrating again the devastating toll caused by lung cancer. LCA last released its Fact Sheet in 2008. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081016/LCALOGO ) The 2009 Facts About Lung Cancer analyzes the most recent available data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers...

People who live in urban areas are more likely to develop late-stage cancer than those who live in suburban and rural areas. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the June 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results indicate a need for more effective urban-based cancer screening and awareness programs.Diagnosing cancer at an early stage can improve outcomes. Studies show certain groups, such as low income populations, are...

We all know colorectal cancer screening saves lives. According to current recommendations, however, there's a limit to the good these tests can do.Many doctors haven't gotten that message, report Veterans Affairs researchers.They note standard guidelines clearly state people who are not expected to live more than another four years generally don't need to undergo the tests. Their study of the medical records of more than 27,000 patients in the VA system finds little evidence anyone is...

Israel-based laboratory equipment developer BioView has reported positive results of its internal clinical trial of the non-invasive diagnostic test under development for early detection of lung cancer. In the trial, a total of 76 sputum samples were collected from four groups of patients, healthy individuals that never smoked, heavy smokers with no signs of lung cancer, early stage lung cancer patients (stage 1) and advanced stage lung cancer patients. The sputum samples were blindly...

REHOVOT, Israel, September 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioView Ltd, from Rehovot, Israel, reported today results of its internal clinical trial of the non-invasive diagnostic test under development for early detection of lung cancer. In the trial a total of 76 sputum samples were collected from four groups of patients: 1. Healthy individuals that never smoked 2. Heavy smokers with no signs of lung cancer 3. Early stage lung cancer patients (Stage 1) 4. Advanced stage lung cancer...

A population-based breast cancer screening program in Norway compared physician- and self-referrals in Vermont in detecting cancer, researchers said. Berta Geller of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Solveig Hofvind of the Cancer Registry of Norway and colleagues compared the screening approaches by looking at the percentage of women who were recalled for a re-evaluation, the screening detection rate of breast cancer and the rate of interval cancers in 45,050 women in Vermont and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A blood test that looks for the body's own immune response to tumors may provide an easy way to find lung cancer in patients long before an X-ray or CT scan could, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. The test correctly predicted non-small-cell lung cancer in blood samples taken from patients years before they were actually diagnosed with lung cancer, the researchers reported. If the test's reliability can be confirmed, it might become the first new blood screen...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A test that finds damaged genes in the lungs of people considered at high risk of lung cancer might be able to predict who actually develops the deadly disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The test is still not accurate enough for widespread use, but could replace risky and expensive X-rays, the researchers said. "Short of repeatedly X-raying a person's lungs to look for emerging tumors, there is no way now to screen people at high risk for lung cancer,...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In people at high risk for lung cancer, low-dose CT scanning of the chest may detect early lung cancer, researchers report. However, "its usefulness as a screening tool is limited" because it misses tumors in certain areas of the lung and often falsely identifies harmless spots as being cancerous. The results have been mixed on the ability of CT scans to spot early lung tumors, when cure rates following surgery are excellent, note Dr. R. MacRedmond from...

By Megan Rauscher NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening chest x-ray detects a substantial number of lung cancers at an early potentially curable stage, according to initial findings from the largest US study of the efficacy of screening for lung cancer in men and women. According to the initial chest x-rays of 77,465 people in the screening arm of the trial, 5,991 -- nearly 9 percent -- had results that were deemed "suspicious for lung cancer." Upon further testing, 126 individuals...