A positron emission tomography (PET) scan is an imaging test that uses a small amount of radioactive tracer to measure the rate of glucose (sugar) that the cells in your lung use. Cancer cells use ...

SAN ANTONIO, July 09, 2025--bioAffinity Technologies' CyPath® Lung detects Stage 1A lung cancer when imaging was inconclusive ...

He says PET scans are essential for lung cancer diagnoses compared to other imaging tests. According to Dr Mutua, a PET scan can detect cancer in lymph nodes and organs that appear normal on a ...

Lung Cancer Causes. Smoking is the biggest reason. It’s responsible for about 85% of all cases. Quitting cuts the risk. Former smokers are still slightly more likely to get it than nonsmokers.

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 ...

Malaysia began incorporating AI screening as early as 2020, when private healthcare centres launched initiatives to use AI ...

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“It really surprised me,” says Dr. Daniel Miller, 66, Director of the Lung Cancer Screening Program at the Georgia Cancer Center. Because of the AI software, he ordered a PET scan.