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

Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.

Preparation for a PET scan usually takes 24 hours but there are some details you need to sort out with your medical team at the time of scheduling.

Cancer a life-threatening disease can spread or metastasise from its original location to other parts of the body The lungs ...

Lainie Jones has Li-Fraumeni syndrome, which makes her predisposed to having cancer. She's undergoing treatment for ...

The risk factors for lung neuroendocrine cancer include: Some lung neuroendocrine tumours ... There are different types of PET-CT scan. These include FDG PET and Gallium Dota PET scan. The scans ...

So, the American Lung Association has partnered with the Ad Council to launch "Saved by the Scan" to urge all eligible people to get screened early for lung cancer as it could save your life.

Ciaccio went to a pulmonologist and underwent a PET scan, which uses a radioactive tracer to search for traces of cancer. The scan found signs of cancer, and a biopsy confirmed that she had lung ...

Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at the time of the diagnosis and increase their risk of future heart disease, ...

If this shows that you are at high risk of lung cancer, you will be offered a low dose CT scan of the lungs. We don't have all the details on how lung screening will work yet. For example, we don't ...