Tag: Cancer: Lung

Integrated care involving medication and intensive counseling provides optimal smoking cessation intervention

Tobacco-associated trachea, bronchus, and lung cancer mortality decreasing overall, while pollution-associated mortality increasing

Mean distance in American Indian-majority census tracts reduced with adjustment for rurality but was still 3.16 times that seen in White majority tracts

Metformin correlates with progression-free survival in patients with overweight on immunotherapy

Extensive coronary artery calcium associated with composite primary outcome, all-cause death, cardiovascular events

Lung cancer survival increasing; however, disparities still exist, with consistently worse outcomes seen among people of color

More than 80 percent of former or current smokers have never heard of nor discussed LCS with a clinician

Reduced detection on low-dose CT scans using CAD systems more pronounced for nodules measuring less than 5 mm

Nine statements developed, including performing four or more versus three or fewer needle passes in suspected malignant disease

Most of the potential prevented deaths would occur in low- and middle-income countries