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The diagnosis of a lung nodule during a scan can naturally cause concern but not all lung nodules indicate cancer. In fact, many of them are […]

Blood in a cough is hard to ignore. While lung cancer or TB tend to come to mind first, there’s a condition that gets missed far […]

Not every aspergilloma needs an operation. Plenty of fungal balls sit quietly in the lung for years without causing serious trouble. An aspergilloma is a mass […]

Lung cancer usually develops silently without presenting any symptoms until it has progressed. Lung cancer screening helps detect early signs of lung changes before any symptoms […]

When air enters the space around the lung and compresses it, the result is a pneumothorax — a collapsed lung. A first episode can often be […]

While lung infections are common, recurrent lung infections can mean there is something more that needs to be addressed. The term “recurring lung infections” describes repeated […]

Lung cancer usually heads inward. It creeps toward the middle of the chest or burrows into the airways. This one flips the script. A Pancoast tumor […]

Think of the mediastinum as the crowded middle of your chest, the pocket between the lungs where the heart, windpipe, and major vessels all live. A […]

A nodule or shadow on a lung scan is rarely explained by the scan itself. Getting tissue is the only way to know what’s actually there. […]