One of the newer developments in the cancer testing and diagnostic space is the rise of minimal residual disease (MRD) testing. However, there can be confusion surrounding what it is, how it works, and whether it's a good fit [...]
Ashley Vassallo is a 37-year-old mother of 2 young boys living in Northern California. Formerly a hospice social worker, she now works as a patient advocate focused on raising awareness of lung cancer in young women without a smoking [...]
By Alison Mayer Sachs, MSW, LSW, OSW-C, FAOSW, Director, Community Outreach & Cancer Support, Services, Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center, Eisenhower Medical Center and lung cancer survivor “Scanxiety” is a term that people with cancer use to describe the anxiousness [...]
By Barney Brinkmann Barney Brinkmann retired four years ago after a 40-year career with AT&T as an engineer in St. Louis and Dallas. His sense of wanderlust has taken the St. Louis native to India (five times!); scuba diving [...]
Authors: Andrew Ciupek, PhD, Associate Director, Clinical Research, GO2 for Lung Cancer; Anita K. McGlothlin, Senior Director, Economics & Health Policy, GO2 for Lung Cancer; Angela Criswell, MA, CPS, Director, Quality Screening and Program Initiatives, GO2 for Lung Cancer [...]
Authors: Anita K. McGlothlin, Senior Director, Economics & Health Policy, GO2 for Lung Cancer and Angela Criswell, MA, CPS, Director, Quality Screening and Program Initiatives, GO2 for Lung Cancer Lung cancer screening with a low-dose computed tomography (also known [...]
On March 9, 2021, GO2 for Lung Cancer, American College of Radiology (ACR), and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to revise their Medicare coverage policy to reflect the new [...]
With no symptoms of lung cancer, I went in for a low-dose CT scan after receiving a direct mail flier from my health care provider system, Baylor Health (Dallas, TX). I had quit smoking approximately ten years earlier at [...]
Today, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) published its final recommendation for low dose CT lung cancer screening, which expands screening recommendations by lowering the age minimum to 50 years and lowering the smoking history to 20-pack [...]
Decoding lung cancer terminology can be tough—but we’re here to make it easier. In this blog, we’ll help you better understand nodules, also known as lesions, coin lesions, growths, or solitary pulmonary nodules. Nodules are abnormal (yet common) spots [...]