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Risk Versus Benefit: Lung Cancer Screening
A new CT screening test captures many views of the lungs, providing more detail than traditional x-ray lung cancer screening. Any type of medical intervention – surgery, medications, even x-rays –...
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New Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Expand Eligibility
The new guidelines expand lung cancer screening eligibility to 94 million Americans. A lung cancer screening and surveillance task force led by a Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) physician team, and...
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The Great American Smokeout: Make It the Event of a Lifetime
The American Cancer Society’s (ACS) 37th Great American Smokeout will take place on November 15, 2012, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is joining the ACS in encouraging smokers to use that date as a...
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Expanded Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Expected to Save Lives
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has endorsed a BWH-led team's recommended use of low-dose CT for lung cancer screening. In 2012, we published a post about the recommendations of a lung cancer...
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Women and Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among men and women in the United States. For women, it accounts for more deaths than breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer combined. Consequently,...
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Rotating Shift Work May Increase Health Risks in Women
Rotating shift work may increase a woman’s risk of dying from heart disease or lung cancer. New Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) research has found that long-term rotating shift work may increase a...
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Don’t Leave Women’s Health to Chance
Dr. Paula Johnson The author of today’s post is Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor...
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