A father was diagnosed with deadly lung cancer caused by the toxic chemical asbestos after noticing a 'little, annoying ache' under his right ribs. Malcolm Ledgar, 64, based in Nottingham, noticed the ...

A father was diagnosed with deadly lung cancer ... referred him for an X-ray and a CT scan, and the retired builder was diagnosed with mesothelioma — a type of cancer that typically starts ...

A new laser is helping doctors detect lung cancer ... lung cancer with a blue laser light in what may become a routine screening programme. Current diagnostic procedures include chest X-rays ...

The committee only looked at 30% of the X-ray backlog, but identified three missed lung cancer cases and another 20-30 possible cases of cancer. If nothing was done, more than 42,000 X-rays and ...

“While a chest x-ray can identify some lung tumours, it may miss small tumours present in the early stages of the disease and is less effective at assessing cancer spread,” says Dr Mutu ...

A patient raised concerns to HDC that a lesion in her right lung was missed in both her 2017 and 2019 chest X-rays and was discovered only in 2021, which led to a delayed diagnosis of pulmonary ...

The general opinion that the silent lung cancer discovered by routine chest x-ray surveys will be more susceptible of cure than when the cancer has manifested itself clinically hardly seems to be ...

Inspectors also found a backlog of 23,000 X-rays at the hospital A hospital failed to spot cases of lung cancer because it did not check patients' chest X ... for an X-ray or scan, it is important ...