Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

Your chest X-ray shows a nodule. What immediate steps should you take? Lung nodules, also called pulmonary nodules, are small spots or lumps that sometimes show up on a chest X-ray or CT scan. Most of ...

A PET scan is often used to help determine a cancer diagnosis. A positron emission tomography (PET) scan uses a tracer with low levels of radiation to find places in your body where cells are ...

Squamous cell carcinoma treatment varies by stage, involving surgery, radiation, and systemic therapies based on cancer ...

Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) is using AI to transform chance discoveries of early lung cancer into second chances ...

Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MD Key Takeaways Liver metastasis from lung cancer often causes abdominal pain, ...

Medicare Part B covers outpatient PET scans when ordered by a doctor and considered medically necessary. PET scan costs can vary depending on whether you have the scan in a hospital as an inpatient, ...

As patients with lung cancer live longer, the risk of long-term cardiac side effects of radiation therapy has been increasing, despite advances that reduce the radiation dose to the heart. New ...