There are two main types of lung cancer. Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC ... They may also give you exams and tests like these: Chest X-ray CT scan of the chest: An X-ray machine linked to ...

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC ... may also appear as a light gray mass on an X-ray image. If a chest X-ray detects cancer, staging is an important part of the diagnostic process.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among both men and women. Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC ... to find lung cancer when they do an X-ray for something else. When present, symptoms ...

Patients with extensive-stage SCLC often respond to induction therapy, but the disease tends to progress rapidly after cytotoxic therapy ends, said Jared Weiss, MD, of the University of North Carolina ...

Early signs like wheezing, cough, and chest pain can give way to other symptoms, such as joint pain or facial swelling, as the cancer spreads. Like other cancers, non-small cell lung cancer can ...

Non-small cell ... in the chest or neck. Treatment typically includes a combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and/or surgery. Coming to terms with a lung cancer diagnosis ...

In patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), low-dose CT achieved higher sensitivity than chest x-ray for detecting lung metastases and second primary lung cancer, but patients ...

In a registrational phase 2 cohort, we evaluated adagrasib (600 mg orally twice daily) in patients with KRAS G12C-mutated non–small-cell lung cancer ... with contrast), chest CT (with contrast ...

Small-cell lung cancer is ... to determine the stage of cancer. In limited stage SCLC, the cancer is on only one side of the chest and is usually in only one lung. It may also have reached the ...

Small cell lung cancer ... about the possibility of lung cancer, they will order one of the following imaging tests to check for signs of the disease: chest X-ray CT scan MRI PET scan While ...