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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Columbus Regional Health has the ability to screen for lung cancer and identify it in early stages. Timely identification and ...

Study shows combined endobronchial ultrasound and endoscopic ultrasound (CUS) is a highly reliable tool for ruling out N2 ...

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 ...

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.