When Devonne Swift developed a persistent cough in 2021, she never imagined it could be a sign of lung cancer — after all, she had never smoked. But thanks to a lifesaving new diagnostic technology ...
When Leslie Keebler contracted the flu last winter, early-stage lung cancer was not on her radar. The 62-year-old from ...
(Reuters) - A new diagnostic test from Veracyte Inc could help many people avoid risky and costly invasive lung biopsies at a time when millions of American smokers are eligible for lung cancer ...
March 7, 2007 — Researchers have identified an 80-gene biomarker to help in the early detection of lung cancer. Prolonging bronchoscopy by only about 5 minutes, the new biomarker is designed to help ...
“The work that we are presenting here at AACR involves our attempts to develop an early diagnostic test for lung cancer in smokers who have suspicions of disease,” said Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, assistant ...
This makes you a secondary smoker and as a secondary smoker you are more prone to suffering from lung cancer. As a non-smoker you might assume that you are living a clean and healthy life, sadly this ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — An oral formulation of the hypertension drug iloprost resulted in significant improvement in a series of biopsy scores among former smokers, according to findings presented at the ...
May 20, 2010 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — Oral iloprost, an analogue of prostacyclin, shows promise in the prevention of lung cancer in former smokers by improving endobronchial dysplasia, according to ...
A new test might enable doctors to catch lung cancers that are missed by a commonly used diagnostic tool. Each year in the United States, about 300,000 people get a chest X ray that shows a suspicious ...
today presented positive results from the AEGIS I (irway pithelium ene Expression n the Diagnosi of Lung Cancer) clinical trial, which demonstrate the diagnostic accuracy of the BronchoGen™ genomic ...