Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Q: I’ve been a smoker since I was 19 years old. Even though I’ve smoked about a pack a day for the past 33 years, I feel pretty healthy. I get regular checkups, which include having a chest X-ray (all ...

NORFOLK, Va. — November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The disease often goes undetected until it reaches an ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, W.Va. — Weirton Medical Center is adding to its toolbox when it comes to early detection for lung cancer, through its new Low Dose Lung CT Scanning Program. The program provides early ...

Frontal chest X-ray shows a small nodular opacity (arrow) in the left upper lung zone. Axial, non-contrast, low-dose chest CT scan shows a 9-mm solid nodule (arrow) in the left upper lobe. CHICAGO – ...