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Join us in Boston or virtually Oct 24&25 for the Rescue Lung Society conference on #lungcancer early detection. Check out the stellar speaker & topics & register today rescuelung.org/2025-confere... #lcsm #ldct #pfcc

about 1 mSv per LDCT, done annually about the same as a mammogram

Actually, not true. #Lungcancer screening with #LDCT detects cancer at an early stage 80+% of the time; 70% of the time at Stage 1 when with complete resection 90+% are alive >5 years. It's an easy non invasive test. Pancreatic & Ovarian cancer do not have recommended screening tests. #lcsm

It's World Lung Cancer Day. CT Lung Screening Finds Lung Cancer at an early stage when there is a good chance for a cure. If you or someone you know smokes or has smoked, please talk to your doctor about #lungcancer screening. #lcsm #worldlungcancerday #pfcc

Doctor-led Shared Decision-Making Significantly Boosts Lung Cancer Screening Adherence Over Time A new study published in CHEST finds that Medicare beneficiaries who participated in a shared decision-making visit with their healthcare provider prior to their initial lung cancer screening were …

📢 New #NeimanHPI study in journal CHEST
finds shared decision-making visits are linked to up to 32.5% higher adherence to annual lung cancer screening.
@findlungcancer.bsky.social #lungcancer #lungcancerscreening

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Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w... #lcsm

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Lung Cancer Screening on Wheels

Lung cancer screening on wheels improving access to rural communities www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/h... #lcsm #lungcancer

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US | CNN There have been more measles cases in the US this year than any other since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago.

Measles cases surge to record high, for a disease once declared eliminated in the US

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Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states Researchers in Democratic congressional districts stand to have $2.1 billion in NIH grants reinstated, compared to $62 million in Republican districts.

"As the NIH begins to reinstate grants, it's creating a surprising map of winners & losers at odds w/the 🍊admin’s politics. Some institutions, mostly in blue states, are back 2 a semblance of normalcy, others, mostly in red states, are left 2 pick up the pieces of ..." 1/2 #CanSky #IDSky #OncoSky

Navigational Bronchoscopy or Transthoracic Needle Biopsy for Lung Nodules | NEJM Each year, millions of pulmonary nodules are identified incidentally or through lung cancer screening, and many involve biopsy to distinguish cancer from benign processes. Both navigational broncho...

Nav Bronc was noninferior to CT guided transthoracic biopsy with much fewer pneumothoraxes Navigational Bronchoscopy or Transthoracic Needle Biopsy for Lung Nodules | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... #lcsm

#lcsm #lungcancer #Boston

Join us in Boston for the Rescue Lung Society Conference dedicated to #lungcancer screening -- Oct 24, 25 in Boston and virtual rescuelung.org/2025-confere... #lcsm
Global challenges in CT lung screening
Research, clinical trials, and study updates
Expanding eligibility criteria
AI, ML& MCED

Image from article in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence

Open-source #AI language models achieved 90%+ accuracy in extracting structured clinical data from #radiology and #pathology reports https://doi.org/10.1148/ryai.240551 #DeepLearning #LLM #LLMs

May's issue of the #JACR covers a broad range of topics; read it using the link below ⬇️ and please share!

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Updated ASCO Living Guidelines Highlight Need for Timely, Patient-Friendly Communication in Stage IV NSCLC Fawzi F Abu Rous, MD, discusses updates to the ASCO Living Guidelines for the management of stage IV non–small cell lung cancer with driver alterations.

Updated ASCO Living Guidelines Highlight Need for Timely, Patient-Friendly Communication in Stage IV NSCLC @henryfordhealth.bsky.social #lcsm #oncology
www.onclive.com/view/updated...

Lung Cancer 🫁 has been the number 1 cancer killer of American women since 1987. Strange how Congress instructed the CDMRP to delete ALL our federal research funding.
Silence is complicity.
Make some noise.
#lcsm #stayalive #nostigma

ELECTION TIME VOTE FOR DR. NARJUST FLOREZ For The 2025 IASLC Undesignated Board Seat #4 "Together we can make a difference!"

✅ Vote FLOREZ!

Dr @narjustflorezmd.bsky.social Is running for the @iaslc.bsky.social Board of Directors.

Her entire career has been dedicated to:

👉 Improving outcomes for people with #lungCancer
👉 Innovative research & ideas
👉 Strong mentorship to the next gen in #lcsm

🗳️ Undesignated Group # 4

Trade war with China to hit US healthcare Without a carve-out for tariff exceptions for pharmaceuticals, prices will skyrocket for US patients, experts warn.

Trade war with China to affect U.S. healthcare. Without a carve-out for tariff exceptions for pharmaceuticals, prices will skyrocket for U.S. patients.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

I was (barely) able to pull the video off. Here is just that 30 seconds.

Go to about min 7 of the recording

Texas measles outbreak up to 541, 36 new cases since Tuesday
(cases reported are only a fraction of actual)
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
56 have been hospitalized.

Sniffing Out Lung Cancer: Breath Analyzer Moves Closer to Clinical Use So-called eNose achieves 80-90% performance level for lung cancer detection

Sniffing Out Lung Cancer: Breath Analyzer Moves Closer to Clinical Use www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon... #lcsm

5 Calls Newsletter The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls

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FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, has just resigned. In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Here's What RFK Jr. Got Wrong About H5N1 Bird Flu 'This is Hollywood science, not real science,' one expert said

In two recent Fox News interviews, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. minimized concerns about #H5N1 avian influenza in the U.S., sparking alarm among public health and infectious disease experts.
www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Texas measles update today
309 cases; 40 have been hospitalized (<-which means there are far more than 300 cases diagnosed)
www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

#lcsm #bcsm #pfcc

Using Lung Cancer Screening to Help with Smoking Cessation A program that combines intensive counseling and cessation drugs was very effective at helping smokers being screened for lung cancer quit, a clinical trial finds.

www.cancer.gov/news-events/... #lcsm