Yovana Portillo felt stunned that she had lung cancer because she never smoked. But she hopes people realize that lung cancer ...

Interstitial lung disease is characterized by scarring ... Dr. Watanabe and his team focused on PET/CT scan, a nuclear imaging test that is able to detect inflammation in the whole body.

On when should a patient get a PET scan for lung cancer evaluation, Dr Mutua says if a chest x-ray or chest CT scan reveals suspicious findings, a PET scan is the next appropriate step.

Typically, patients with lung cancer will be started on a treatment plan—such as chemotherapy—and then wait 12 weeks to have a CT or PET scan to see whether the treatment has shrunk the tumor ...

A new deep learning model shows promise in detecting and segmenting lung tumors, according to a study published today in ...

on the lung that is usually 2 centimeters or less, “but there are always exceptions,” Gunn said. Undergo a PET scan (3D imaging) to confirm that the cancer has not spread elsewhere — to ...

While unvaccinated macaque monkeys exhibited signs of severe lung inflammation and disease following the Mycobacterium  tuberculosis infection (warm colors indicate inflammation and disease, bottom ...