''Today, the American Cancer Society (ACS) released an update of its lung cancer screening guideline to help reduce the number of people dying from the disease due to smoking history. The new guideline recommends yearly screening for lung cancer for people ...'

''The American College of Radiology issued a heads up on Thursday regarding potential payment denials at certain facility types. ACR highlighted the delivery of low-dose CT lung cancer screening at independent diagnostic testing facilities. Following a ...'

''Mammography is the standard imaging modality for breast cancer screening—and in fatty breasts, it detects up to 98% of cancers, the authors noted. However, the sensitivity of mammography in extremely dense breasts is only 30% to 48%. Considering an ...'

''Modifications to pack-year history and smoking quit duration thresholds beyond those recommended in the 2021 United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) criteria for low-dose computed tomography lung cancer screening may more than double the ...'

''Recently, Randeep Guleria, director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, warned against CT scans in mild Covid cases linking CT scan radiation to cancer ...'

''Pain has piled up in this long pandemic year, not just in deaths but in growing mental health concerns and alcohol consumption. Another public health challenge smoking has remained on the back burner, but no longer. The U.S. Preventive Services ...'

''Life expectancy should be the driving force behind whether older breast cancer survivors continue with screening mammography. At least that is the push behind the first screening mammography guidelines published Thursday, Jan. 28, for this patient ...'

''Local surgeons have teamed up with nuclear medicine experts to develop a new method to identify cancerous spread which is missed with traditional checks for timely and individualized treatment of patients with prostate cancer. The discovery, developed ...'

''In the last 25 years, breast imaging has undergone a profound transformation, driven by four main trends. First, large-scale implementation of screening mammography for breast cancer reached huge volumes in the early 2000s (1), both in Europe (2) and in ...'

''The largest organization representing U.S. breast surgeons is issuing new screening guidelines, advising women at average risk to begin annual mammograms at age 40. Those guidelines differ from advisories from the influential U.S. Preventive Services ...'